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.
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.
That problem is solved by the subsecond crate (an offspring of the Dioxus UI framework), demo here: https://youtu.be/Kl90J5RmPxY?t=1288
It's not integrated in Nannou specifically, but they're showing off Bevy and ratatui in that demo, both very popular frameworks in the Rust world. (In fact, Nannou is in the process of being rebuilt on top of Bevy.)
Yes, I wanted to play with things like this, I love Rust, but nowadays I use things built in Python or Lua (like love2d) -- because I need fast interactivity for visual creative coding.
This reminds me of OpenFrameworks [0], which provides very similar framework style functionality like Nannou but for C++.
yep looks heavily inspired by OF. Anyone knows whats up with that project? I was involved years ago, it seems to still be going but I think many people moved on?
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
AFAIK it's being rewritten to use bevy
Very nice name and reference!