It is hard to replicate or actually compete with proper proprietary design tools. There's a ton of UX and performance enhancements that are done over the years and IMHO OSS can never get to that. I'm speaking specifically about design tools. There have been a lot of tools that have been around with not a lot of adoption. I like and appreciate the effort and it is definitely a massive effort to build these OSS alternatives to design tools, but it is hard to actually pick, use, and make them your daily drivers. Design tools is one of those categories of software where proprietary is definitely a better choice to choose over OSS.
One of the things I was gobsmacked by the first time I used Figma years ago was its performance, which has only gotten better with time. From what I understand, they've built some custom stuff for WebGL for their renderer.
Here it looks like it's powered by React. I'm curious if anyone's used both and can compare the performance of the two.
I switched to penpot for a little bit after the Adobe acquisition was announced because I figured Figma as we knew it would cease to exist. However, I found that there were little differences between the two that gave it a learning curve and I noticed that I missed little niceities in Figma. I went back to it after a few weeks and after the acquisition was revoked, I feel better about sticking with Figma. I love the company and the story behind it's creation, and plan on continuing supporting what I think is a better product. I'm happy that penpot exists though to keep Figma in check from excessively pricing their product.
thallavajhula ·20 days ago
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asicsp ·20 days ago
* Penpot 2.0 Released https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39978781 (131 points | 21 days ago | 27 comments)
* Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32851262 (1145 points | Sept 15, 2022 | 128 comments)
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vedmed ·20 days ago
https://icons8.com/lunacy
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