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Seeking feedback for 2D drawing library CanvasCraft

Hi :waving_hand:

I’ve been working on CanvasCraft, a 2D drawing library for Elixir built on top of Skia via Rustler. It provides a declarative Scene DSL for drawing charts, dashboards, or custom rendering pipelines. I’m using it for the Elixir based programmatic video generation framework.

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Since this is still an early project, I’d love to hear feedback from other Elixir open source maintainers and contributors.

  • What practices helped you avoid common pitfalls in Elixir OSS projects?

  • Any tips for designing a stable DSL and API versioning?

  • Best practices for Rustler/native integration, cross-platform builds, and CI?

  • What helped your project grow adoption and community involvement?

Any advice, lessons learned, or critiques are very welcome. Thanks for reading!

— Artem

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