@justvanrossum this is why I don’t want them to buy Figma. So much bloat, so many features I don’t need.

@justvanrossum I know Adobe is still necessary in many ways for designers in general, and so also for type designers, at least to test their fonts in. But I just grew so tired.

Now I’m just using Keynote and Pages, and then Glyphs to draw vectors, Drawbot to create proofs and to make certain kinds of vector illustrations. Procreate to draw and for certain image treatments. It’s likely not sustainable, but for now that’s all enough for me. That’s how much I dislike Adobe’s software.

@justvanrossum I think at some point I just stopped wanting to think about the added baggage so much software adds nowadays. Keynote and Pages just let you do simple things well and fast. Procreate is such a simple interface and with the pencil it’s just intuitive. Even Affinity software ia complicated and bloated, and every time I open it I just end up closing it and going for something simpler.

@justvanrossum It’s like a virus

@justvanrossum Just use Affinity Photo 2.0

@justvanrossum Several years ago I moved to Affinity apps and never looked back. Adobe is behaving like a virus and and overloads your computer with unnecessary processes.

@justvanrossum The guy in charge of the Illustrator and Indesign codebases admitted that since they changed from Mac to PC as lead platform and moved development offshore “half of the source code nobody understands”.
Like ancient fintech, eventually every major application will contain an emulation of every previous lead development platform running a black box of magical code.

@justvanrossum If you save, reboot and re-open are there still 3 crash handlers?

@justvanrossum would Inkscape be a good replacement?

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Inkscape in Windows with a text-and-vectors document open including two large hi-res color photos