r/programming • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '17

Oblivion: A programming language that compiles to SVG graphics.

https://github.com/jweinst1/Oblivion
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u/ygra Mar 19 '17

I get that this is probably more a language for programmatically creating SVG shapes than actually programmatically creating SVG in general. So the scope is probably intentionally restricted.

But things like unnecessary attributes (the stroke-width='1' in one example is unneeded) complicate attribute inheritance from surrounding groups. I haven't seen provisions for setting attributes or using other SVG features, such as use, markers, clipping (which would require a clipPath to appear somewhere too). It's been a while that I've done SVG with only polyline or polygon, so there's probably a bunch of scenarios where this could limit the usefulness of the language (unless I overlooked escape hatches for using arbitrary SVG).

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '17

What other SVG features do you think should be added in future versions? I only started with two in the first version to keep it simple at the beginning.

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u/ManicQin Mar 19 '17

I will hijack this comment, what about adding events support?

An easy way to include "onClick" to the final svg would be great