Comment by TheqO

9 hours ago

    Ansel is what Darktable 4.0 could have been if it didn’t die of feature creep .

    Between 2020 and 2023, Darktable has suffered massive code additions of peripheral features, often ill-coded, poorly designed and penalizing usability, performance and maintenance. Too many workarounds failed to fix bugs, but layered new problems on top of legacy code : welcome in maintenance nightmare.


They got beef!

There's a lot of well reasoned, but pretty caustic, developer blog notes for the project.

Refreshing breath of honest air, imnho. I don't agree with the author in all things, but I enjoy how well and directly they express their viewpoints.

Right?! And the rest of the README continues like that. Must be some juicy history here

I'm digging their Sentry charts. That's the kind of discipline we need more of. Stability is a feature.