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In-depth review of Inkscape

Inkscape
Inkscape

Jakub 'Jimmac' Steiner, GNOME artist extraordinaire, have done a long and detailed review of the current release of Inkscape. Jimmac comes out mostly positive this time around, and it seems the Inkscape hackers might be able to get Inkscape to a level where they can lure Jimmac and other artists away from Illustrator in the upcomming months. In related news, it seems John Stracke might be taking over maintainership of Sodipodi from Lauris Kaplinski.

which is a bad thing

De-cludgifying and detangling the code is a noble goal and it can very well be achieved without introducing the hell on earth that's called C++. Actually I am rather sure that is impossible to achieve the goal simply due to the fact that C++ is a cludgy and tangled language.