edn VS SVGToolpathReader

> was utterly surprised how no one ever apparently has thought to create a configuration/templating system that's basically a fancy library on top of Scheme.

There's Clojure's extensible data notation: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

A thin language layer around edn/datalog, the query language

EDN (Extensible Data Notation) is a subset of Clojure: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

It is:

- Streamable

- Extensible

- Whitespace-insensitive, but there are formatting conventions for readability

To begin with, EDN is somewhat like the JSON of Clojure. And regarding the code is data/data is code nature of Clojure, it is Clojure. It doesn't have some of the vagaries of JSON, and it is also extensible.

Alien is not a reason something is bad, just that's it's unusual. JSON was a bit alien when it first arrived as well, as everyone was used to XML at the time.

`{num 5, val 4}` looks fine to me, but we can do even better! We already know objects/maps are always in pairs, so we don't really need that comma either. Just do `{num 5 val 4}` and we save yet another unnecessary characters.

Of course, I didn't come up with this format myself, what I actually want JSON to be is EDN (https://github.com/edn-format/edn) which is a standalone format but also directly used in Clojure, so it already exists inside a programming language and works very well. There keys are strings though, so you example would end up being `{"num" 5 "val" 5 "person" var}`, where commas are optional.

I just checked out the spec, and it gets pretty ugly in the Table section. A lot of the json examples are both shorter and IMO more precise. Stuff that’s not allowed with [table] is allowed with [[table]], and it’s confusing to understand what level of depth I’m at.

I’ll take edn over any of “em. https://github.com/edn-format/edn

As XT is written in Clojure and it natively supports Clojure’s data types, we were not satisfied with available JSON types and decided to give EDN a try - that way we would have way more supported types:

Compare the nightmare that is pickling with how simple it is to serialize pure data with edn in clojure. What ends up happening is people passing around JSONs or whatever and writing parsing/encoding code at each end, which makes things unnecessarily more complex, and dangerous, and error prone, and boring, etc...

Is this the correct github for setup/use instructions? https://github.com/Ghostkeeper/SVGToolpathReader

I've been trying to get this to work for a couple years now but haven't had any luck. There's a Cura plugin called SVG Toolpath Reader that I have seen applied to models that will print the first layer following the lines of the SVG image - IOW if you apply an SVG "weave" in the pattern of carbon fiber, the pinter will follow the SVG pattern as a toolpath and print the first layer in the crosshatch pattern of the weave. Looks neat! Also, you can do this for other patterns or even lettering. However, I'm stumped. The directions are pretty much "Drop the image in Cura." Ok, great...how do I apply it to a model? I'm using Sketchup, but have some familiarity with Blender and can use Meshlab, -mixer, -room. Any help would be appreciated.

I implemented an svg renderer a few years back. Due to the nature of what this code does it only needs the outline of shapes, thankfully, but MAN there are a lot of components to it. Getting the CSS to work 90% of the time was a nightmare, and I'll never reach 100% I'm sure. I never intended the code to encompass this many things so it's terribly structured. I didn't even touch Javascript since interactivity is irrelevant for my context.