✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systems
Sep 22, 2026, 8:56 AM@david_chisnall @webbop @tante as someone who tried to do this with SolveSpace: a clear and stable API is the other 270%, in practice
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- ✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systemsSep 22, 2026, 8:58 AM
@david_chisnall @webbop @tante (in the end it was never implemented because neither me nor, as far as I know, anyone else, could stomach the dramatic expansion in scope. people just switch to FreeCAD if they need more features in practice, which in my experience at the time was infinitely worse)
- ✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systemsSep 22, 2026, 9:00 AM
@david_chisnall @webbop @tante or in other words: there's a lot to be said for designing for extensibility, but it's an order of magnitude harder design, implementation, and support task, and so outright impossible for someone for whom the base application stretches their skill and experience to the limit
open interchange formats are still very hard in many of the same ways, but not quite as hellishly difficult