nsblast VS MathAnimation

nsblast

Example from one of my projects: https://github.com/jgaa/nsblast/blob/main/cmake/3rdparty.cmake

Yahat-cpp: Simple HTTP/API server library for use in C++ micro-services. This was just some code that kept evolving inside various projects, so I distilled it to a separate project to make it simpler to maintain. For an example of a real server using it, you cal look at nsblast, a new DNS server I'm implementing.

I hope this question is not too off-topic here. I'm a bit lost. I'm working on a C++ project (a DNS server). It exposes a REST API via an embedded, very simple HTTP server. I have added swagger to document the API, and to test it from a browser. Now, I want to provide a simple web-UI to the application. I don't want this to become a major task, and ideally I want either a UI that lives as some simple js/css/http files in the browser, (so it can be served as a static website on the server-side like swagger) - or some simple to use back-end library in C++ that can drive the web-UI. In short, I hope to find a way to do this where I can have a POC ready in <= a week, and where I don't have to spend lot's of time learning some js framework.

I'm using C++ for most of my projects, because I like it. It's also what I do for a living. The latest new open source project I initiated is a dns server, nsblast, using rocksdb for storage. https://github.com/jgaa/nsblast

The (side) project I have put most effort into in the last year is k8deployer, a helm like utility that can deploy simple and complex applications in kubernetes with minimal effort. https://github.com/jgaa/k8deployer

In these projects I don't use other languages. C++ is the only language where I easily get into "flow".

https://github.com/ambrosiogabe/MathAnimation

If you’ve ever tried to make a mathematical animation (think 3Blue1Brown), it’s a real pain. I was using manim for awhile to make animations for my YT channel, but the whole iteration process felt very slow and repetitive. So I thought I would recreate manim over the weekend, except with a GUI and real-time feedback. It’s been a year and a half and I’m hoping this weekend will be done soon so I can move on and start making videos again.

So far, it does a lot, but it still needs a lot of polish and refinement. The readme gives some gifs and a better idea of the feature set right now.

Win32 definitely has some stinkers. But, video encoding APIs definitely take the cake for me. I've only tried a couple of FFmpeg's APIs and AV1's API, but my God, these are the worst API's I've ever had to deal with.

Just as an example, all I wanted was an API like this[0] for FFmpeg. In order to implement that API (which in my opinion is reasonable), I had to write this monstrosity[1]. It took me a solid week to find an example of how to do this, then another few days of fiddling until I finally just barely got something working. Then I threw in the towel even though the performance was horrible. I tried again a year later and spent another month wrestling with AV1 :/

The amount of leakage going on in these APIs is absolutely insane. I shouldn't have to know the intimate details of how video encoding works to use your library. If I do, then I may as well write my own encoder at that point.

[0]: https://github.com/ambrosiogabe/MathAnimation/blob/18c004bca...

[1]: https://github.com/ambrosiogabe/MathAnimation/blob/18c004bca...

I just so happen to be working on a real-time Gui first replacement for manim :)

It still has a ways to go, but I was able to create one video with it so far and I'm working on all the pain points I ran into while using it. Feel free to check it out if you're interested!

https://github.com/ambrosiogabe/MathAnimation

I'm using C++ for a minecraft clone that I've been tinkering on for the past year[0]. I also plan on using embedded lua for scripting, and I'm using RML UI for game HUDs, ImGui for development tools, and OpenGL for graphics. I use premake for my build system but plan on switching to CMake.

I'm also using it for an animation tool[1]. I've been using 3Blue1Brown's Manim (written in Python) which is amazing, but it lacks real-time editing and proper 3D blending. It also lacks audio synchronization, 3D texture support, and some more complex features that I'd like to add :)

[0]: https://youtu.be/UAUdIQZKV88

[1]: https://github.com/ambrosiogabe/MathAnimation