yeah, the UI is not sexy. But the feature set that is being boasted in the article is THE SAME from firewoks around 1999.

It was the only place i could get some vector work and still be pixel perfect.

Last used photoshop in 2006 and it wasn't even close.

...sadly gimp tries too hard to be a photoshop clone even copying the lame export dialog instead of save as...

Sketch has much better support for layer and stroke styles than Fireworks did, particularly older versions of Fireworks. For example, you can apply multiple gradient layer styles to both the stroke and the fill of a rectangle in Sketch, with alpha. In Fireworks, you often had to make two or three rectangles to get the appropriate effect of a photorealistic button.

How about Inkscape?

Seems like most designers dismiss Fireworks before even giving it a chance. Once you get over the initial bump it actually feels much nicer to work with than Photoshop.

The only thing really listed in this article that Fireworks hasn't done for years is the retina capabilities.

Fireworks blows sketch out of the water performance wise and also opens layered PSDs/copy and paste support for vectors from Illustrator.

Adobe killing off Fireworks just proves how little they understand the needs of their customers.

> Adobe killing off Fireworks just proves how little they understand the needs of their customers.

"Adobe" and "customers" go together in a sentence like "hacker" and "power outage"...

I am hopeful they will turn round the company, but it'll take a while.

I've thought for a while that they are an enterprise company that thinks their customers are everyday consumers...