Very cool concept. Would love to see something like this for web development. Where making changes in the browser could be persisted seamlessly to code
Code-GUI bidirectional editing via LSP
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#22See https://new.rt.ht for bidi i⇄o sync demos! The PDF ones are especially fun! The whole playground is built for bidi sync!
Wait, what is this?! It's really cool
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#23Isn’t the python based build123d the current best CAD in code solution? The problem with OpenSCAD is that it cannot export solid geometry, just a final mesh. More broadly, I was genuinely shocked to realize, when I was playing with it, that there is no cross CAD file format that captures even simple design concepts like “this hole is aligned to the center of this plate” or even “this is a 2mm fillet”. STEP (the file…
It's really hard to explain if you don't know how CAD kernels produce final BREP shapes via their process trees, but, try give an example-
something like "this is a 2mm fillet" requires a 'fillet solver' that is deeply ingrained in the kernel. It isn't something that would ever be portable, say, from Fusion360 to CATIA natively because those are completely different kernels with different ways of 'solving' the model (and not just fillets, but, everything).
That is why STEP containing the final BREP manifold solid is the standard interchange that it is - it is a final representation of the solved output that IS portable, and anything else is... difficult.
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#24Hey nice - this stuff is so much fun to me. I've worked a number of experiments like this too, especially related to live coding. Love seeing it in the wild. I built a small project where you can live-code Love2D. The running program updates in real time (no saving needed) and see all values update in real-time, via LSP. https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/livelove And also added the same kind of interactivity like a num…
Isn't autocad lisp powered?
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#26I'm about to set off on this journey too with a code-first PCB editing suite for myself to work on. Seems like this is a good piece of prior art to reference as I need to build similar tooling. Thanks for posting!
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#27This stuff is a dream of mine, editors in different modes that can collaborate seamlessly. Keep up the good work!
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#28I know basically nothing about CAD, but I know thet fornjot exists and wondered if it might be useful to your purposes, in case you don't know about that.
But well, the project is very cool and I love the idea of using LSP for something more!
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#29Whoa … you can use various unicode characters in titles on HN?
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#30This is a great idea: I'd never think of using LSP for this! As a software developer, I always get frustrated when I am doing some graphical work and struggle to neatly parametrize whatever I am drawing (wooden cabinets and furniture, room layouts, installation plans...) and switch between coding where that makes most sense and GUI where it doesn't. The best I've gotten was FreeCAD with Python bindings (I've got a co…
I think we’re a lot of developers who are frustrated by constantly needing to choose between code or GUI… both have their use case, but I feel like there must be a system that combines both.