I think there is a Dunning–Kruger like effect whereby the complexity of rewriting an open source project from scratch is vastly underestimated the less you know about the scope of the work.

You could make 80% of #inkscape in a couple of months of javascripting. But this is 80% of Inkscape's surface. Not actual depth.

Rewrite it all in #Qt? #React? #JS? #Rust? These are ideas aren't bad. But they are vast projects that would cost millions of dollars.

Related to: https://mastodon.uno/@maxdid/114691504835360868

Qt’s New Bridging Technology - Looking Back to Move Forward https://www.qt.io/blog/about-the-new-qt-bridging-technology

«With the new bridging technology, Qt aims to provide not only a set of initial integrations for five pre-selected languages: C#, Kotlin/Java, Python, Rust, and Swift, but also to open and document a few private QML APIs to allow anyone to build additional language integrations in the future».

#programming #qt