Why create a new project instead of advancing InkScape though?
Q3 progress report: https://graphite.rs/blog/graphite-progress-report-q3-2024/
Why create a new project instead of advancing InkScape though?
And because it's time for a fresh start. Sometimes you can't turn around a heavy ship, and that ship doesn't want to be turned around. It's easy to write a sentence like that, but once you actually think about it, how does an outsider with a good idea and a capability to execute on it somehow approach an existing project and decide to "take it over"? That would be neither viable nor would it yield a desirable outcome. We're building something fundamentally different from Inkscape that just so happens to eclipse it.
This leaves only three options:
1. start contributing to the project slowly, try to get into their ranks, participate in conversation, and hope that you share the same vision
2. fork it and learn the codebase by yourself
3. write your own
Out of those, given the obviously conscious choice to go with Rust, and the ambitious goals, the third option is the only one that makes sense.