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Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app

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783 points Keavon | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 22:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source

For the past three years I've been building what I hope will be the next Blender, tackling the lack of any good 2D design or image editing tools outside the Adobe monopoly. This was our first year participating in Google Summer of Code and this Q3 update includes the big payoff from that, covering the most progress we've made so far as a project. If you're a Rust dev, consider getting involved as we apply for the next GSoC in the new year— you could be our intern next summer :)

Q3 progress report: https://graphite.rs/blog/graphite-progress-report-q3-2024/

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qwertox ◴[16 Oct 24 04:59 UTC] No.41855769[source]▶
This is the kind of stuff I love to see at the top of HN, that application looks absolutely professional.

When searching for "scripting" on the pages, I don't see any scripting support. Are there plans to integrate it?

Also some kind of API?

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Keavon ◴[16 Oct 24 05:30 UTC] No.41855914[source]▶
Thanks!

No support for custom scripts yet. But the whole concept is that we're basically building a WYSIWYG editor on top of a node-based compositor on top of a visual programming language (so that's three products in one, lots of work ahead for us!). The result is that the whole thing is a programmatic data pipeline and you'll be able to write custom scripts in both node and code form, then compose them into reusable pieces and pipelines. But since we're building three products in one, we have only been able to focus on the parts that matter most to get things working. Your request hasn't yet been one of those, but worry not, that's very much a core feature.

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bschwindHN ◴[16 Oct 24 12:42 UTC] No.41858406[source]▶
Do you think you'll use WASM as a target for the custom scripts in code form?

Zed has an interesting WASM-based extension APIN that makes it really easy to write extensions in Rust, it might be worth checking out for this project.

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1. Keavon ◴[16 Oct 24 18:24 UTC] No.41862096[source]▶
Custom code will be compiled to Wasm so it's sandboxed for security purposes. First-party code that ships with Graphite, or perhaps trusted authors in the future, will be able to use non-Wasm native code on desktop. But Wasm is still a very high percentage of native speed.
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2. bschwindHN ◴[17 Oct 24 12:06 UTC] No.41868848[source]▶
Makes sense, I think that will end up a solid approach.