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Love it. Love the visual history. It feels quite snappy. The UI aesthetics are great. You've got most the pen tool features I used in Illustrator, and managed to do it…",{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"7116370","hablahaha","Awesome! I'm really awful at drawing on my computer. Many failed attempts at trying to learn Illustrator, Gimp, etc. What's really cool about a web app of a drawing app is that…",{"value":66,"source":67,"evidence":68},"Web developers, designers and students who need basic vector drawing.","commenter",[69,72],{"id":70,"by":63,"text":71},"7116574","Yeah, exactly. I also don't have a need to use any of those heavy weight apps more than a few times a year, so every time I go back, I have to start over again from scratch.…",{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},"7116270","thebiglebrewski","This is awesome! I'm going to encourage my students to use this in my web design class to draw basic mockups.",{"value":77,"source":78,"evidence":79},"Built for fun.","maker",[80],{"id":81,"by":11,"text":82},"7117262","For fun",{"value":84,"source":78,"evidence":85},"About a year, built in spare time between school and work.",[86],{"id":87,"by":11,"text":88},"7116600","You're right, it still chokes on a lot of SVG features. It is in no way spec-complete. All I can say is hopefully people contribute and it works better for everyone. The version…",[90,101],{"value":91,"source":67,"evidence":92},"CoffeeScript",[93,97],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"7117240","jashkenas","You might be shocked (shocked!) at how clean and readable some of the CoffeeScript source is. To pick an example at random:…",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"7116438","rfnslyr","If you failed at using Illustrator or Gimp effectively, then you didn't try hard enough. 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Have you considered contacting the SVGEdit (https:\u002F\u002Fcode.google.com\u002Fp\u002Fsvg-edit\u002F) team to see if there are some synergies?",{"id":210,"by":211,"text":212},"7116706","davidy123","Nice simple editor web based editor, though I'd still use the fuller featured SVGEdit in most cases. One thing that would really stand out would be an 'infinite zoom' I've seen…",{"value":214,"source":67,"evidence":215},"Adobe Illustrator",[216],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},{"value":218,"source":67,"evidence":219},"Inkscape",[220],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},{"value":222,"source":67,"evidence":223},"Pixlr",[224],{"id":225,"by":226,"text":227},"7119384","webwanderings","Pixlr is very popular among young crowd. This one pales in comparison in the same category (free). I don't know about open-sourced though.",{"value":229,"source":67,"evidence":230},"Sketch",[231],{"id":232,"by":233,"text":234},"7116668","thekingshorses","Nice. 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