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ecto

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About ecto

https://campedersen.com/ https://github.com/ecto/

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    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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