2 Afternoons, 2 Languages, 2 TUIs

Thu, 23 May 2024 18:37:47 +0530

Yesterday I created a tool in Golang to help me render my animations a little faster. Although the alterior reason was to check my Golang proficiency, today I rewrote it in Rust and I was blown away by the differences in the final products.

When I’m rendering animations for a YouTube video, the general development iteration comprises me creating or modifying a file, switching to a different terminal pane and manually issuing a manim command for the respective file to render and play the animation. My goal was to automate the last two processes, switching terminal panes and manually issuing a command. The idea is to have a tool running in the background that listens for filesystem events, like when a file gets created or modified, and if the file happens to contain an animation, renders it. On linux systems, it’s mostly a bunch of bindings to inotify but I have used platform agnostic libraries for both the languages.

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