Developer builds text-based scripting language to generate whiteboard animations via AI

A developer has created Strokeline, a scripting language that converts simple text commands into hand-drawn whiteboard animations, with shapes and arrows rendered on a split-screen editor. The tool is designed to be AI-friendly, allowing users to prompt ChatGPT or Claude to generate animation scripts automatically. During development, the creator encountered a critical parser bug where an infinite recovery loop consumed 4GB of RAM and crashed the test suite entirely. A separate React and Zustand state management conflict caused endless re-renders whenever a script contained two or more scenes. Despite these hurdles, core features including character-by-character text reveal and shape-tracing animations are now functional.
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