Mastodawn

OKAY.

the moment i have dreaded for so long has come.

sxpp is implemented and nearly complete.

nudl is implemented and nearly complete.

now i'm going to implement tukan in nudl.

nothing is done yet.

i'm not going to use dear imgui.

instead i'm going to bootstrap visual editing from structured text editing (similar to our 2015 IDE prototype written in Lua, see screenshot).

the first thing we do is solve text rendering. we need to display *a lot* of fixed width text.

I am not very happy with imgui, as it is not declarative enough for me... but it does allow me to target audio pllugins, Android, etc.

maybe... this needs an abstraction

@gbraad dear imgui is very good, but it is written for C++ control flow. i don't have those limitations anymore.

@lritter right, not a huge fan of C++ either.

What other options exist? I am actually curious and looking for something declarative or something more designable.

@gbraad Qt :-) but the problem is in the way languages are structured. controlling a GUI only stops being a problem with reactive programming.

I feared you would suggest Qt.

@gbraad there is no faster way to break a programmer's spirit than to mention Qt