> Companies don’t need an alternative to Adobe. The licensing costs are a drop in the bucket.

You are ignoring non-profits and countries foreign to you.

No I’m not because Adobe has pricing structures for non-profits and other markets.

In the context of this discussion, the question was why companies aren’t funding GIMP development, and the ones that can’t afford a $20/mo aren’t the ones who would be funding development anyway.

Yes, of course there’s a market for free stuff. But the price of admission into the existing paid for products is low enough that there’s little motivation to fund it.

edit: never mind i had somehow missed the GIMP Python extensions. So extensibility is not a point in favour of Krita, though looking at both APIs, I prefer the Krita API though that’s subjective

Python has been available as a scripting language in GIMP for over two decades now.

GIMP 2.99.x (future 3.0) is shipping with support for Python, Script-Fu, Lua, JavaScript, and Vala as languages for extensions.

Ah you’re right.

The last time I used Gimp, the Gimp Python extension was an optional module that wasn’t included in the build I had But it’s been a while clearly and I missed it. I’ll edit my prior comment