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Code-GUI bidirectional editing via LSP

I built a small proof-of-concept for a system that enables real-time bidirectional editing between any modern code editor and a GUI, enabled by an LSP1 server. Code-based CAD I like working on small projects at home that benefit from CAD. I’m also a programmer with a personal development environment that I’ve spent years making as cozy as possible. Naturally I’ve been interested in finding code-based CAD system to use for my projects that allows me to use that cozy development environment.

For example: One idea I’m exploring is “bidirectional editing”, so geometry can be manipulated using either: a purpose-built graphical UI, or the textual codeCAD language OpenSCAD is fundamentally not built for GUI editing, but since it’s open source and has a nice language server already, it could be a good place to develop a more interesting demo of this concept. Handling conflict resolution, incremental edits, and the more complex general LSP server internals are all serious tasks, let alone creating a whole new language for CAD.

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