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[AndersDeleuran]

GHPython (using RhinoCommon) for scripting on the canvas, C# for developing compiled components in Visual Studio. These are the most low friction (for me, at least). There’s a lot of posts on this subject if you do a search. Here’s a recent one expanding a bit:

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It’s probably C# not C++. The Python version that Rhino implements is called IronPython i.e. a Python flavour for .NET that is written entirely in C#. You can therefore think of IronPython as a high level and dynamic wrapper around C# with Python syntax. This comes at the cost of performance, where especially large computations will be slower than directly written in C#. For more direct considerations about language differences, have a look at this article from old forum. Generally speaking I …