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I'm curious why you chose json as apposed to just working directly within SVG, or perhaps using a template language or some other DSL.

I've been thinking of making a tool that will output g-code based on similar ideas to what you have here, however, I think I would try to work directly in go or python instead of expressing the shapes as json.



I chose json mostly for convenience, but also to give me some easy future possibilities.

Making thinking was something like:

pros:

1. json has lots of tooling and is generally easy to work with 2. if I put up a ui/webapp around hfd, then json will work well for that. 3. if I want a custom DSL, I can always have the grammar convert to json as the underlying representation.

CONS: 1. the json ends up being deeply nested and hard to work with 2. lack of multiline strings and comments (I went ahead added comment support though :))




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