Rust procedural-drawing Projects

Graphite

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An open source graphics editor for 2025: comprehensive 2D content creation tool suite for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics — featuring node-based procedural editing

Project mention: Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-10

A tool which looks at this sort of thing which was mentioned here recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118159
but which didn't seem to get much traction is:
https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/
but it pretty much only works for JavaScript programmers and their friends (or folks interested in learning JavaScript).
Other tools which I'd like to put forward as meriting discussion in this context include:
- LyX --- making new layout files allows a user to create a customized tool for pretty much any sort of document they might wish to work on --- a front-end for LaTeX
- pyspread --- every cell being either a Python program or the output of a program, and the possibility of cells being an image allows one to do pretty much anything without the overhead of making or reading a file
- Ipe https://ipe.otfried.org/ --- an extensible drawing program, this really needs a simpler mechanism for that and I'd love to see a tool in the vector drawing space which addressed that --- perhaps the nascent https://graphite.rs/ ?
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