Oh I'm a FreeCAD person anyway.

OpenSCAD was a useful stepping stone for me, from programming to 3D. But I've been doing my own designs in FreeCAD for two and a half years or so.

I just think the typical groundswell of HN support for OpenSCAD is a bit misguided; it sort of relies on near-wilfully ignoring what GUI CAD -- even FreeCAD -- can do for one's designs.

Yes, it's good for simple geometry, and some more advanced mathematical geometry. But it boxes you in pretty quickly because you cannot easily compose geometry based on the outputs of previous operations.