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[–] 31 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Write JavaScript

Think I'll stick to openscad

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    That was my first reaction until I noticed its object-orientated.

    Then I baulked at having to rawdog node and npm on my machine.

    no thank you.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    You guys feel free to keep being JS-phobic but please don't describe setting up an ECMAScript runtime environment scarily complicated. It's apt install node npm notably on Ubuntu/Debian. That's it.

    Besides, there are Bun and Deno now which are evidently faster runtime than Node.

    If you have a problem with the language itself, please criticise at it, not something made from it. In fact, being a programmatic schematic file, a script rather than a compiled language makes more sense because a script evolves faster in development while sacrificing performance. Performance isn't top priority.

    And you said it's object-oriented? Which part of this piece of code in their tutorial looks OO to you?

    https://fluidcad.io/docs/guides/sketching/introduction

    circle(50, "xy")               // circle on the XY plane
    rect(100, 60, "front")         // rectangle on the front plane
    line([0, 0], [100, 50], "xz")  // line on the XZ plane
    slot(80, 20, "xy")             // slot on the XY plane
    arc(50, 0, 90, "front")       // arc on the front plane
    
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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    You're arguing the wrong points. You didn't really read what I said.

    I don't care about Javascript. I don't want my computer catching dependency hell or cryptominer herpes.

    I don't want that shit rawdogging my system, go package it up into something sensible. I don't want its entrails all over my system and I don't want it breaking something elses dependencies.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    With so many new repo because of ai, ignoring their quality, i haven't seen much update on cad/cam field

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Thanks for sharing with us. I personally don't like subscription svc which needs internet connection,but at least they open source some part of whole app and offer free tier. Some bro/sis are gonna like it. Microcad looks like heading to programmatic approach like openscad. Anyway, begger cannot be chooser, I simply appreciate everyone's hardwork and hope the best of all open source projects

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    This looks amazing. I hope someone makes it able to export gcode.

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