Hi

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.

• GitHub: https://github.com/miolini/canvascraft

• Hex: https://hex.pm/packages/canvas_craft

• Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/canvas_craft/readme.html

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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