In 1980, a young programmer at an MIT AI laboratory wrote a piece of software that pinged users whenever the shared printer jammed or sat idle. It was a small thing, but a useful one. Back then, a single printer served an entire building, sometimes sitting on a different floor.

Anything you see around you that is manually developed was first designed on a computer. The design process before development provides clarity on how the product would look and feel. The software that designed these things emerged roughly four decades earlier. It began with simple lines, arcs, and basic primitives.

What does it take to create a CAD Kernel? This question lingered in my mind for weeks. I was restless. I reached out to a notable industry leader for some resources. He replied, "Not really unfortunately :/ since most kernels are proprietary". Today marks a year since I asked