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inland flicker Feb 7, 2024, 6:39 PM

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Hi guys! I'm MathLike and I'm working on MathLikeAnim-rs project (https://github.com/MathItYT/mathlikeanim-rs), a very fast alternative to Manim, which is also web-compatible thanks to WASM.

It's still very immature and not ready for production, but I've an example here 🙂

gray scroll Feb 7, 2024, 10:14 PM

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that’s cool! have you considered supporting Typst instead of (or as well as) LaTeX?

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Just to keep it pure rust :D

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and also, Manim would be so much nicer with typst lol

inland flicker Feb 7, 2024, 10:47 PM

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Yeah, I also want to incorporate Typst, however, the SVG parser still can't parse any Typst's SVG (SVG 2.0 isn't supported), but Typst is a great and fast tool.

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Maybe in the future

gray scroll Feb 7, 2024, 11:07 PM

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Right, I see you’re implementing SVG manually

inland flicker Feb 7, 2024, 11:10 PM

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Yes, that took me a lot of hours XD

gray scroll Feb 7, 2024, 11:12 PM

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You might want to use usvg

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I think it would save a lot of work

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https://docs.rs/usvg

usvg - Rust

usvg (micro SVG) is an SVG parser that tries to solve most of SVG complexity.

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Slightly higher-level than svg

inland flicker Feb 7, 2024, 11:13 PM

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I'm also the creator of Manim Studio, a GUI for Manim, and I felt everything is so slow with Python, so I'm creating the Scripting API in Rust and then it will become an editor

inland flicker Feb 7, 2024, 11:14 PM

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gray scroll https://docs.rs/usvg

Thank you so much!

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