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The article does mention CadQuery at the end:

"Right now, I’m learning CadQuery which promises to address the shortcomings; it uses a more powerful BREP based CAD engine (OpenCASCADE) combined with the power of Python and inspiration of JQuery, of all things.

"CadQuery is still in semi-early development – it started as a FreeCAD plug-in before becoming independent for the recent 2.0 release.

"Most importantly, the output capability of CADQuery allows for proper STEP, SVG and DXF export, eliminating most of the problems discussed in this article.