This was an extensive research where some of the things I did / researched was:
use the terminal to display the UI (and use it…)
lazy mode where it would do minimal checks to see if an update was needed
swappable integrations for the design (including logic handling)
layout on the go vs at the end of the frame
This is actually the biggest project I ever worked on and my findings are a bit of a mess.
Doing this in Odin gives me refreshed energy to revisit my traces.
One additional goal I have now is to make it work with WASM. I hate the web but I can’t get around it so this might make it more of a breeze.
where Casey Cmuratori shows that a terminal should literally be able to render fullscreen color with thousands of fps.
I tried so many terminals and they are all slow, the ones that have a optional to make use of the GPU often run faster when you disable the GPU setting. When Casey made refterm I really hoped people would jump onto it and contributed in actually making it a valid option to use as a terminal. This won’t be my goal either but I do think it’s a nice project to learn and hopefully someone continue to develop it someday.
(If I’m lucky someone makes a proper terminal emulator before that)
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There is a lot more I want to make but I choose to only list those 3 for now.
So please show me your projects! (You could also show what you work on if it’s in an early stage.)
Initially, the idea was purely to just wrap git, to download dependencies from git (without dependency management or something like that), but now it can also create a new package, generates settings for ols and odinfmt, now I’m still working on the install command, similar to go.
In the future, I also want to use it to install and update the odin compiler.
And also, perhaps, embed a binding generator to C
(This post was translated automatically, I apologize if there are any errors)
I don’t have anything specific in mind at the moment but I’d love to one day regularly work on installations or just general projects involving graphics programming that’s a more creatively oriented. I’ve always loved the kind of work folks like FIELD, onformative or Rhizomatiks have done.
Unfortunately I got roped into doing regular web work(think static sites or SaaS apps) just to pay the bills after college so it’s been a bit difficult to try and make the transition
I think if you do web work it could pay off to follow the gordon stream that ginger bill did to use WASM with odin.
Also if you like graphics programming, for me the book visualizing data really helped me.
It’s a book I often recommend to students that say they can understand code when they read it but have problems when they have to create a project themself. I’m pretty certain your skill level is a lot higher since you use odin and not python or something.
But I still think the book is worth it’s money. It’s made by one of the creators of processing.
If I would follow the book now I would try do do it in Odin with raylib or something where possible. There might be a few bumps on the road with that approach tho, like loading and using a svg, and the use of a treemap library. The treemap library is likely interesting to port tho.
Sometimes I dream about making an editor for high res images. For drawing in layers with tablet and all that.
Something very nice and snappy.
Everytime I use Photoshop or Affinity Photo and the performance gets sad I think of this. There literally are no user-friendly and high performance alternatives.
