Documentation on MSML vs. cadCAD

[SeanMcOwen]

I believe MSML and cadCAD are supposed to be two different paradigms. How are they different? How are they similar? what type of projects is MSML best suited for?

[SeanMcOwen]

There is this hackmd I put together a bit ago with regard to engineering phases
I’ll want to write this one out in more detail but I’ll give some short answers
The underlying paradigm of GDS is the same but right now cadCAD only does the general block approach and not the semantic enhancements of things like boundary action, but because all the blocks in MSML are still the same block base class they all will function the same in cadCAD. Spaces are the same (but wrt cadCAD 1.0 not cadCAD legacy)
cadCAD should be for running large scale simulations optimized for speed, versus MSML can be used for scaffolding
MSML should be better suited for ideation and working through “Bread-boarding” before moving on to a stricter paradigm of cadCAD for more optimized simulations