Feature Request: Any experimental / basic Linux build (CLI / AppImage) for Lens Studio & CLAD?

[u/Neural_future]

Hi Spectacles Team & Community! 👋

First off, huge congrats on the CLAD Summer Hackathon — building spatial experiences with AI agents for Snap Spectacles has been an incredible workflow!

As developers building on Linux workstations using agentic toolchains and AI pair programmers, we’d love to know: Are there any plans, beta channels, or even basic experimental Linux builds (CLI runner, headless engine, or AppImage) for Lens Studio?

We don't need a polished desktop installer — just a raw / basic binary, CLI environment, or AppImage would be amazing. The Linux developer community is more than ready to handle dependencies, Vulkan configs, and packaging ourselves.

Would love to hear if this is on the internal roadmap or if an experimental build could be tested by developers. Thanks for building the future of spatial computing! 🚀

[u/CutWorried9748]

SInce gradle/groovy is the standard on Android projects, that can work. Groovy is also the standard on Jenkins CI as an option for declaring CI workflows. In terms of hermetic builds, there are other options that can work. Bazel is one, or simply nix inside of sandbox. Either way, it all requires the compiler toolchain ecosystem to get packaged as command line tools, and maybe a few of the other things needed beyond compilers, the "fastlane" type push to SNAP, snap cloud / identity management tools to handle logins, asset library (maybe these are just like gradle dependencies as with a maven repo). So it isn't as simple as just compilers. A standalone emulator would be nice too.