Asymptote: Vector Graphics Programming Language for Technical Drawings (github.com)

22 points by pmalynin 10y ago ↗ HN

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samatman 10y ago ↗

My first Github repo was/is an asymptote program for generating Go kifu:

https://github.com/mnemnion/gasym

maxerickson 10y ago ↗

It's not really directly comparable, but for simple illustrations I had a better time wrapping my head around sketch:

http://sketch4latex.sourceforge.net/sketch.html

webaholic 10y ago ↗

Going through the github repo... why is it not yet standard practice to have a src/ and include/ directory for a project layout? It is just my personal preference or do others think the same?

stephensonsco 10y ago ↗

Yes! I have lazily been waiting for something like this to come along and hopefully bump out metapost. Maybe this has already happened and I am out of the loop on that though.

uhoreg 10y ago ↗

Asymptote itself has been around for over 10 years. There is also TikZ, which is quite popular. I don't have much experience with TikZ (I'm just starting to learn it), but my impression is that Asymptote is more powerful, but TikZ is more integrated into the LaTeX workflow.