[KennedyRichard]

Hello, creator and maintainer of Nodezator here. I love Blender. Used it a lot until 2013. The only reason I haven't used it in the past few years is because I'm not involved with anything that requires me to work with 3D design. In addition to that, I found out recently that Blender doesn't launch anymore on my 4Gb RAM machine.

Blender is the reason why I created Nodezator, that is, because I wanted to use Blender's node editor for general computing as well, not only for 3D related workflows. I even bought Bartek Skorupa's DVD course on compositing with Blender, remember that?

Certainly there must be possible in theory to fork Blender's node-related internals into a standalone app. However, I very much doubt that'd be a trivial task, much less for someone in my situation at the time. When I started making Nodezator I had only been using Python for 2 years and knew nothing of C/C++.

According to Blender's developer website, Python is used for "interface layout, simple tools, key-maps, presets and add-ons", while GLSL is used for shaders and all the rest of the code is C++ (and a bit of C). There's also the size of Blender's repo (1GB + 979MB of LFS storage). With 1GB of source, even with someone skilled enough to disentangle the node editor bits from Blender's source, I believe it would still take a lot of time and probably not an endeavour for a single person. I think that is the reason why no one did it before.

That'd be awesome though!