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  • commands

    Collection of editing commands for the CodeMirror code editor

    It's CodeMirror! All I had to do was write a Janet grammar for it -- very easy to do. CodeMirror is pretty amazing -- I was able to implement the "edit values with your mouse" by just asking CodeMirror for the syntax node under the cursor, checking if it parsed as a number, and if so replacing it with a different string.

    https://codemirror.net/

    https://github.com/ianthehenry/codemirror-lang-janet

    I went with CodeMirror after reading this post that compares a few different editor components: https://blog.replit.com/codemirror and I've been super happy with it.

  • glicol

    Graph-oriented live coding language and music DSP library written in Rust

    For IDE, you can use the combo (Vite.js, Sevelte.js, and Windi CSS) I choose for building Glicol (https://glicol.org).

    I had a blog post about the combo before:

    https://dev.to/chaosprint/use-vitejs-seveltejs-and-windi-css...

  • Appwrite

    Appwrite - The Open Source Firebase alternative introduces iOS support . Appwrite is an open source backend server that helps you build native iOS applications much faster with realtime APIs for authentication, databases, files storage, cloud functions and much more!

  • codemirror-lang-janet

    Janet support for CodeMirror 6

    It's CodeMirror! All I had to do was write a Janet grammar for it -- very easy to do. CodeMirror is pretty amazing -- I was able to implement the "edit values with your mouse" by just asking CodeMirror for the syntax node under the cursor, checking if it parsed as a number, and if so replacing it with a different string.

    https://codemirror.net/

    https://github.com/ianthehenry/codemirror-lang-janet

    I went with CodeMirror after reading this post that compares a few different editor components: https://blog.replit.com/codemirror and I've been super happy with it.

  • libfive

    Infrastructure for solid modeling

    No; Bauble doesn't know how to "rasterize" SDFs into meshes; it only knows how to raymarch them. It's theoretically possible, but it's a pretty complex problem that would take me much too long to figure out and implement. So Bauble is relegated to just making pretty pictures for now. If you want to produce meshes using SDFs, check out https://libfive.com/

  • retrace.gl

    Create, ray trace & export programatically defined Signed Distance Function CSG geometries with an API suited for generative art - in your browser! 🎉

    I've written a tool somewhat similar that can export meshes of sdf's created using a javascript api, check it out: https://github.com/stasilo/retrace.gl

  • colorchord

    Chromatic Sound to Light Conversion System

  • Sonar

    Write Clean JavaScript Code. Always.. Sonar helps you commit clean code every time. With over 300 unique rules to find JavaScript bugs, code smells & vulnerabilities, Sonar finds the issues while you focus on the work.

  • implicit

    A math-inspired CAD program in haskell. CSG, bevels, and shells; 2D & 3D geometry; 2D gcode generation...

    There's also ImplicitCAD (https://github.com/Haskell-Things/ImplicitCAD) which produces STLs, as it is designed for CAD. It uses implicit functions, which I believe are similar to SDFs (I believe the idea is not to necessarily correspond to the distance function).

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