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> Antimony is a computer-aided design (CAD) tool from a parallel universe in which CAD software evolved from Lisp machines rather than drafting tables. Funny,
by krschultz 11y ago
> Antimony is a computer-aided design (CAD) tool from a parallel universe in which CAD software evolved from Lisp machines rather than drafting tables.
Funny, I'd be way more interested in the software engineering tools that are inspired by drafting tables than the mechanical engineering tools inspired by text editors.
If you spend some time with anyone proficient with the big CAD/CAE programs you will see how efficient they are. OpenSCAD and others are familiar to programmers so they are easier to learn, but if you learn CAD/CAE software they make text editors feel clumsy and slow. For an added bonus, use one of the input controllers specifically built for CAD/CAE, it opens a whole other world.
- rwallace 11y agoDrafting table style software engineering tools have been around for decades. It turns out that the only ones programmers actually want to use are the ones that deal with something that is actually visual/geometric, i.e. the layout of graphic user interfaces, so those are the ones that were kept; that's how Visual Studio got its name. Nowadays when you need to cater to web browsers and mobile devices with a large range of screen sizes, even those are largely eschewed because the layout has to be redone at run time anyway. But there are still some in use by people who work on fixed size form layouts.