JSPaint.exe
Creative
paint program
SHOW HN2021
17points
8comments
#1,520of 2,533 in 2021
Top 61%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Windows 7 Paint is better than most Linux paint apps
From 1 comment
Windows 7 version of paint on the other hand is better than most paint like applications on Linux so if they made that version cross platform then we could finally have a decent…
dmz73 on HN
Paint.NET UX is praised as the model Paint should follow
From 2 comments
Paint has always been a rather useless app, only good for fun as a kid. On a contrary Paint.Net is awesomely practical. Having a cross-platform Paint.Net implementation - this…
qwerty456127 on HNIt is not nearly as intuitive as Paint.Net is. Paint.Net UX is perfect, it really is what Paint should be. On Linux there is Pinta which is a slightly-worse port o Paint.Net.
qwerty456127 on HN
Objections
Original Paint is poor quality and not worth remaking
From 1 comment
Why on earth would you remake one of the shittiest paint applications ever released?
stormking on HN
Title overstates it; the project is a web-based remake, not the original Paint.exe
From 1 comment
Title says original Windows 95 Paint.exe but readme says it uses JS Paint and the readme of that says it's a web based remake. https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95 seems…
zamadatix on HN
Requests
Cross-platform Paint.NET implementation
From 1 comment
Paint has always been a rather useless app, only good for fun as a kid. On a contrary Paint.Net is awesomely practical. Having a cross-platform Paint.Net implementation - this…
qwerty456127 on HN
Cross-platform version of the Windows 7 Paint
From 1 comment
Windows 7 version of paint on the other hand is better than most paint like applications on Linux so if they made that version cross platform then we could finally have a decent…
dmz73 on HN
Questions
Why remake Paint at all
From 1 comment
Why on earth would you remake one of the shittiest paint applications ever released?
stormking on HN
Alternatives named
Krita
From 1 comment
Nowadays I reach for Krita for all my image manipulation needs
jcelerier on HN
Pinta
From 1 comment
It is not nearly as intuitive as Paint.Net is. Paint.Net UX is perfect, it really is what Paint should be. On Linux there is Pinta which is a slightly-worse port o Paint.Net.
qwerty456127 on HN
Paint.NET
From 1 comment
Paint has always been a rather useless app, only good for fun as a kid. On a contrary Paint.Net is awesomely practical. Having a cross-platform Paint.Net implementation - this…
qwerty456127 on HN
felixrieseberg/windows95
From 1 comment
Title says original Windows 95 Paint.exe but readme says it uses JS Paint and the readme of that says it's a web based remake. https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95 seems…
zamadatix on HN