[alkonaut]

Entering a new era when something written in rust can be on HN without saying "written in Rust".

[jeroenhd]

You're not wrong, but every time someone omits "written in Rust", someone comments about how great it is that people don't add that to the title anymore.

[pjerem]

I’m glad you commented so I can know it’s written in Rust :D

[recuter]

Honestly, 3D model file thumbnails would require some sweet performant code so we all just assumed this was written in Rust anyway ;)

[gfxgirl]

well, not really. you load the data and pass it to the GPU. There's no real work to do on the CPU. I'm not saying it's trivial to write a viewer but to doesn't require performant code.

I've written a GLTF viewer in JavaScript. You parse the JSON, pass the data to the GPU, apply shaders. It requires knowledge of how to render 3D and PBR but it's a day or 2 project to get working if you know the topic and no part of it requires any perf.

[recuter]

So you're saying this could only properly be done with Rust. Hear, hear.