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ecto
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Comment #49133747
He wouldn't know.
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Comment #49047635
No, think, play, and live! But not so in fear.
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Comment #49047327
So sad. You're viewing humanity, and reality itself, through a very objective lens. There is magic in every day: have some fun! Otherwise, quit complaining.
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Comment #48748914
All of your arguments are broad, baseless, and trivially disprovable. There absolutely is political will to enable a police state, and history absolutely rhymes.
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Comment #48452524
I made my own lisp, Loon! https://campedersen.com/loon
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Comment #48207180
Thx for reading!
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Comment #48188168
They say ethics and aesthetics are one!
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Comment #48184951
Great chrestomathy! I opened a PR for my lisp, Loon: https://github.com/clarkgrubb/hyperpolyglot/pull/139
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Comment #48184709
Don't be nasty - how could they make it better?
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Comment #48181558
Tessellation is simply required to render the IR. The viewport is guiding the cursor to the vertices (perhaps a bug) but the engine is not forcing their use. I also built a ray cas…
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Comment #48181522
Thanks for trying. What doesn't work? What did you try? If you're specific I'm happy to fix it.
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Comment #48181504
Can you give specific examples?
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Comment #48174826
(forgot to mention, it's wired up to Claude so you can vibe CAD, like OP but with a few more steps - I'd like to train a similar model soon! I also wrote about my first stab at thi…
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Comment #48174784
Readers may also enjoy my open source Rust BRep CAD kernel https://github.com/ecto/vcad or the hosted version at https://vcad.io . I also wrote a bit about what goes into CAD apps!…
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Comment #48089936
I'm building https://vcad.io , a free CAD application with an open source kernel (Rust/WASM)!
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Comment #48080769
ARC refcounts everything (many owners) whereas Loon refcounts only inside immutable shared tree nodes (one owner per handle)
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Comment #48080739
Thanks :) Check out the code - it's Loon! https://github.com/ecto/loon/blob/main/web/src/pages/guide/o...
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Comment #48079771
There are many like it, but this one is mine https://loonlang.com
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Comment #48079758
Readers may enjoy my lisp, Loon, which takes heavy inspiration from Rust https://loonlang.com/guide/ownership
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Comment #47770106
author here - the demos in the article are actually the Rust code compiled to WASM and running in your browser :)
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Comment #47590551
Here's my take on CAD in the browser! https://vcad.io I implemented a full kernel in rust and compile it to wasm https://github.com/ecto/vcad
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