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Before you go deep on OpenSCAD, consider JSCAD: https://jscad.app/

Roughly similar capabilities, but you get to use javascript or typescript instead of the linguistic abomination that is OpenSCAD.

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I'm actually rather fond of OpenSCAD --- it has the advantage of being completely safe in terms of security/execution, so no worries about downloading a random .scad file and wondering what it might do.

If one wants a full-fledge programming language for this, I found Python a lot more comfortable:

https://pythonscad.org/

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