[chbot] Very interesting 3D CAD program!

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On 1 August 2018 at 20:51, Stuart Brown <stuartbrown2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Antimony: http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/

I've found Antimony a really interesting approach and was intrigued to
discover a while back that the original developer has mostly moved on
to libfive & libfive Studio: <https://libfive.com/studio/>.

It's a somewhat parallel development because rather than the
node-based approach used with Antimony it's back to a combination of
text (Scheme) with direct graphical manipulation. I think the
developer's current emphasis/interest is on the underlying kernel to
enable a new generation of Antimony-style tools.

I actually did a trial port of the core of libfive to WebAssembly
earlier in the year for a client which lead me to watch the
development of WebAssembly with interest. There's some interesting
potential when people can port existing libraries and have a common
code base across desktop/server/web which doesn't have to be
Javascript-based. (The web-based solvespace version appears to use
WebAssembly/Emscripten.)

--Philip;