Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon yandex ru>]

Greetings, Alejandro Imass!

> IMHO maybe a fork is required to take DIA to the next level and separate it
> from GNOME even if you decide to keep using GTK and move to 3 or whatever.
> More than the actual graphics library I would look into taking the things
> that are really valuable from the current code and perhaps think of a
> complete re-write with React, Anguar, Ember or whatever. I would get out of
> XML and go to JSON and re-write the app into a React front-end with a
> corresponding backend and API. IMHO the greatest long term existential
> threat to DIA is not Visio or Omnigraffle, it's draw.io

Sounds so much NIH, I don't even want to start arguing.
XML (specifically SVG) is a solid base. You can do wonders with it, all that
is needed is an improvement in rendering (handling) of shapes.

There's very little need to be changed, only moved forward in the basically
same direction it has been always moving.

All your fancy "Angular, React, and shit" are just overgrown, uncontrollable shit.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, December 3, 2018 21:31:34

Sorry for my terrible english...