I haven't tried Penpot yet but I am learning more and more Figma.<p>But it actually slightly _concerns_ me that they don't have a business model or a way to fund their developers until at least a year from now.<p>This kind of application is extremely complex to build, so what do the Penpot devs say to address how to keep the talent around? My worry is about locking core assets in a format that's only supported by volunteers.<p>Even if it's an open format, it isn't a _dev_ tool, it's a design tool, so the "consumers" aren't the ones that can just pick up the complex codebase and take over.<p>Or am I thinking of this wrong? If penpot went stagnant, would someone hopefully just come around and build a converter for Figma/Adobe XD?
I’ve never heard of penpot before, and the blog post barely helps. From the name I guess that had something to do with penetration testing or honeypots. It really bugs me when clicking on the logo of a site like this takes me to the blog index rather than the general landing page so I can figure out what the thing is.
I love that Penpot's open source - many enterprises would love some ability to add features or fork the editor, since design files are so critical to development these days - but I really dislike that it's written in ClojureScript. That makes it really hard for most web devs to contribute to.
I am excited to try, Penpot 1 was sluggish felt like I was painting pixels to the screen manually so I hope that is all resolved now I have a team of people who would eagerly use it if its good
Really neat. I was mainly curious to know when they are planning to release the self hosted docker versions of Penpot 2.0. Although I found this issue on their Github and it Looks like its coming in the next couple days hopefully [1].<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/penpot/penpot/issues/4380">https://github.com/penpot/penpot/issues/4380</a>
Disclosure: I am not a GitLab team member, but I am part of the community "GitLab Core team". This is purely hypothetical. I have zero knowledge of anything internal to GitLab. Having said that.<p>I think it could be really good to have a company like GitLab either acquire PenPot to integrate it into their platform, or build a really tight embedded integration with the service.<p>You would have designers and developers using the same platform to manage things from both initial idea (Epics/Issues), through the design process (integrated PenPot), and then into the development of the feature (Issues/Merge Requests). This would give everything really tight integration and make moving between the different stages of the SDLC really smooth. I'd imagine the designs having their own git repo too, it wouldn't need to be exposed to the designers, but would give a nice easy way to export the data, view it locally, and move it into another product if needed.
Now that the Adobe and Figma acquisition is no more, I wonder how Penpot will fare. It is good that it's open source but it might slow adoption as people have no need to migrate now from Figma as many stated they would had Adobe completed their purchase.
As a designer and website builder, I'm eager to explore how the new version of Penpot can help me build clean HTML+CSS, and sprinkle on some Hugo later on!
I've been toying a little with self hosted Penpot and it was really nice. I haven't used Figma too much, but Penpot was easy to use though it felt a little difficult to handle components.<p>This is a very welcomed release, kudos for the team for delivering.
I'm a Figma guy until such time as they enshittify it, but I'm glad there's competition. Figma, Sketch, and Penpot all look like reasonable options, though maybe for different use cases.