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21:10:00
whartung
I don’t know if there’s a standalone SVG renderer avaliable or not either, but that may be another option.
21:11:09
whartung
as for not using FFI, it’s all a matter of timing and whether you can wait for a native CL implementation of a functionality.
21:11:59
whartung
In java, I avoid JNI in general simply because most of my work is with app servers and an NPE in Java is an exception, but an NPE in a .so is a core dump — not a happy state for an app server.
21:12:44
whartung
That siad, I have exec’d imagemagick from Java in teh past, as I was getting better results from it than native java code. I could have JNId and use the imagemagick directly in Java, but see my previous comment about JNI
21:23:51
whartung
I’m casually working on an ecad board layout to in CL…pretty sure nobody wants that. Especially being it’ll be command driven vs a GUI.
21:24:25
whartung
but, hey, I actaully saw someone the other day ask for a CLI based ecad program, so, who know what niche I may tap in to.
21:52:17
aeth
What makes people run Windows are games and random niche professional tools which are different for every profession
23:04:52
vms14
it's also nice to have it online since you could download it with wget -R and I can read it with lynx, like the author took care of text browsers
4:09:16
beach
aeth: I have always heard good things about Amiga. I am not sure there is much to say about "datatypes" other than that it looks like someone thought about what we would call a protocol and implemented it consistently. That's good.