How Sketch Took on Adobe

Re:How Sketch Took on Adobe by neor on Friday December 14, 2018 @05:03AM (#18679741)

They don't use Electron. Their website states that they don't plan to release Windows or Linux versions because of the large amount of native MacOS API's they use making it very time consuming and costly to make a cross-platform version of the app.

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Re:How Sketch Took on Adobe by test1235 on Friday December 14, 2018 @06:36AM (#18680127)

I guess there's a market for a windows/linux version of this app then? (tho' maybe not as large, given pro-designer tendencies towards macs)

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Re:How Sketch Took on Adobe by arthurfm on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:32AM (#18688013)

There's a third-party app for Windows called Lunacy [1] that can read/write Sketch files, so there must be a market large enough to make that worthwhile.

[1] https://icons8.com/lunacy

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Re:How Sketch Took on Adobe by tonyedgecombe on Friday December 14, 2018 @05:46AM (#18679883)

I wonder how much apps like Sketch and Pixelmator rely on CoreImage to do the heavy lifting. They all seemed to appear after its introduction.

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Re:How Sketch Took on Adobe by aaaaaaaaaab on Friday December 14, 2018 @07:25AM (#18680311)

Sketch is mostly vector-based...

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Re:How Sketch Took on Adobe by coldtea on Friday December 14, 2018 @07:39AM (#18680376)

Quartz is mostly vector-based as well... OS X has very good support for vector graphics, it's rendering engine is basically a version of PDF-style rendering (like old NeXT used "display postscript").

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