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Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app

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783 points Keavon | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 22:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

For the past three years I've been building what I hope will be the next Blender, tackling the lack of any good 2D design or image editing tools outside the Adobe monopoly. This was our first year participating in Google Summer of Code and this Q3 update includes the big payoff from that, covering the most progress we've made so far as a project. If you're a Rust dev, consider getting involved as we apply for the next GSoC in the new year— you could be our intern next summer :)

Q3 progress report: https://graphite.rs/blog/graphite-progress-report-q3-2024/

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egypturnash ◴[15 Oct 24 22:55 UTC] No.41853957[source]▶
This looks neat. I’ve been using Illustrator for twenty five years and have been wishing for a node-oriented replacement of the Appearance stack a lot lately. I will have to check it out when you have binaries, I hate web apps.
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skavi ◴[15 Oct 24 23:22 UTC] No.41854127[source]▶
Is Electron really so different in your experience than a PWA?

Personally, I always try to use a PWA when the app is otherwise offered via Electron.

If it’s going to depend on a browser engine, it may as well be the one I already have open and update regularly.

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1. egypturnash ◴[16 Oct 24 12:51 UTC] No.41858501[source]▶
I want my applications to live on my computer and be able to do things like say “this new update breaks my workflow, I am rolling back to the last good version until they get this shit fixed”. This has happened multiple times with Illustrator.

Also they say "native" apps are coming which I am assuming means "actually talks to the OS properly instead of going through a web browser", I have loathed Electron apps ever since Evernote got rewritten as a pile of webshit.