jwesthues

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1. 1.▲
   by jwesthues 6mo ago

   Yeah. To quantify, OCCT is >1M lines of code, and SolveSpace's NURBS kernel is <10k. This general smallness is what subsequently made stuff like the browser target feasible, though it obviously comes with downsides too. We'd
2. 2.▲
   by jwesthues 8y ago

   > He fully non-responsive to Linux users Well, he was nice enough to write the Linux port in the first place, and he personally develops under Linux, so... To develop free, general-purpose, desktop, parametric 3d CAD software is fairly t
3. 3.▲
   by jwesthues 8y ago

   > Interesting bit of trivia: SolveSpace comes from M-Labs I developed SolveSpace, and whitequark (via M-Labs) is the current maintainer. He's responsible for all the non-Windows ports, plus the last few years of features and some si
4. 4.▲
   by jwesthues 10y ago

   "Constraint" means something different to Cassowary than it does to us here, and isn't obviously useful. An optimized matrix library (Eigen, BLAS, LAPACK, etc.) would provide a modest speedup without too much work. So yeah, t