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olson-sean-k / theon

Abstraction of Euclidean spaces.
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Is this dead? #79

Closed virtualritz closed 1 day ago

virtualritz commented 5 days ago

It seems something like theon is needed more than ever with the number of lin. algebra crates exploding and every other crate using something else. Especially since the popular nalgebra becomes slow as molasses in debug builds. If more crates relied on sth. like theon this would be a non-issue.

Speaking of which, bumping this to latest nalgebra is the only dependency that breaks theon, all other geometry-* features work fine against the resp. latest geometry crates.

olson-sean-k commented 4 days ago

It seems something like theon is needed...

Yeah, I've felt this way for some time too! For intermediate library crates, I really dislike making this choice for users. That's why theon exists! It's a really difficult problem to solve (thoroughly) though. 😬

Is this dead?

Only insofar that I've stretched myself a bit thin with projects. 😅 I don't consider it dead and I've been thinking about this crate recently. I've been planning on publishing some significant changes to decorum first before starting work on theon again, since it integrates with decorum. From there, I'd like to turn my sights back to plexus.

That all being said, I'm not sure when any of this will actually happen at the moment.

Speaking of which, bumping this to latest nalgebra is the only dependency that breaks theon...

That sounds about right. In my experience, nalgebra has had the most API churn and is the most involved crate to maintain a reverse integration with.

olson-sean-k commented 1 day ago

I've published version 0.1.0, which mostly just updates the Rust Edition, MSRV, dependencies, and all integrations. This bring much better LAPACK platform support. Features now use the corresponding crate name per convention (there is no longer a "geometry" prefix). The APIs are yet unchanged, but I have plans.

virtualritz commented 1 day ago

Awesome! Thanks heaps. ☺️

virtualritz commented 1 day ago

On that note, there is yet another one, lina, by Lukas, used by his lox crate, which seems to be similar to plexus. lox came out of his master thesis which curiously mentions plexus btw.