thinkmachyx

Thanks for mentioning that. I’ve tried to use git with freecad’s format before. The main idea of my proposal is to provide a source/result separation workflow, like code compilation. This gives user clean content to save to the repo.

lol, got it! Sorry I got too excited. Got a bunch of Reddit "experts" earlier, so your reply honestly made my day. Thanks!

I really appreciate your reply — it's an honor to hear from someone with such deep experience in the field. Your insights from decades of working with CAD and kernels are incredibly valuable, and it means a lot that you'd take the time to share them here.

The idea of parameterizing geometric problem spaces and learning from how different kernels handle them is strikingly similar to what compiler researchers have done in CS: generating corner cases, analyzing compile errors, and training AI to self-correct. AI coding is used widely in the industry currently, with tools like cursor gaining huge popularity.

And the move to a text-based representation is what makes this all tractable — binary formats never gave us that level of observability or editability. With source-level CAD, it becomes much more realistic to analyze failures, share test cases, and eventually integrate AI tools that can reason about geometry the same way they reason about code.

Thanks a lot for the thoughtful and respectful reply! I really appreciate that you raising the engine issue without dismissing the whole idea.

Although building such engine requires tons of work, but the engine we’re having is indeed a bit of old. Except for the problems I mentioned, you also mentioned they’re still single threaded. That’s why I think it’s still worth building a new one, especially when there’s no good open sourced one currently.

I’m a big supporter of open source. If we have something like that in the future, we should of course make it open source like Linux kernel and allow everyone to enjoy the benefit of it.