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Nannou – A creative coding framework for Rust

59 points by dmit

by ericyd

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I used Nannou for several months, it's actually how I got into creative coding and was my first real foray into Rust. I didn't find the compilation time to be a huge issue for me, but I did find the strictness of Rust to be a problem. Creative coding for me evolved into making beautiful (to me) visual patterns with code. I had no interest in understanding or fixing a mutable shared value because this code was meant to exist for only a few moments, not to power an enterprise system.
I eventually moved on to OPENRNDR [1] which I loved, but these days I just use TypeScript.
[1] https://openrndr.org/

by pjmlp

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The problem with creative coding and languages like Rust, or C++ for that matter, is that long compilation times break down the interactivity that is expected in such workflows.

by plastic041

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It hasn't been actively maintained, but it is still a good crate. Also it has good document unlike other similar crates. I loved this community tutorial: https://github.com/sidwellr/schotter

by matusnovak

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This reminds me of OpenFrameworks [0], which provides very similar framework style functionality like Nannou but for C++.
[0]: https://openframeworks.cc/

by lynndotpy

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I got into this with Genuary in 2023 or 2024. I found myself wishing Rust had a flag that would automatically coerce between different integer and float types. Just let me put an i32 where you're expected a u64, an f32 where you want an i64, it'll be okay, I swear!

by toboramai

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This is a cool project, but it seems like it hasn't been updated in a long time?
It seems like https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol has a similar problem.

by paulglx

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