| (I'm the author of Fornjot.) > I wouldn't be suprised if the author of fornjot had similar feelings if they ever considered that approach. Yeah, I don't think I have it in me to work on a non-trivial project in C++ :) (Not saying that's the wrong thing to do, in general. I'm not the one to do it, is all.) > fornjot is a hobby project. This is not correct! Fornjot started as a hobby, but it has been my main focus since the start of 2022. I rely on my sponsors to support that work. Since around March/April 2022 I've been earning enough from sponsorships to cover my costs. > So the fact that they start from scratch and may take years is not a deterrent. Rather its part of the appeal, I would assume. ;) It's true that Fornjot is enormously ambitious. But I also think lots of people (chiefly those from the professional CAD world) are kind of missing the point on what it would take for the project to be successful. OpenSCAD exists and has a user base. Roughly matching its feature set and incrementally improving from there, could already make Fornjot useful to a lot of people. I certainly don't plan to stop there, but I'm just saying, there's an incremental path here. It's not just "100 man-years for an industrial-grade CAD kernel or bust". |