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Re:Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative by safetydank on Thursday July 31, 2014 @09:19PM (#8117955)
Serif has had a solid Windows vector drawing app (DrawPlus) for a long time. If I remember correctly, a group of ex-Xara developers moved to Serif to write it. Affinity looks similar, I would be surprised if they aren't based on the same codebase.
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Re:Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative by authordale on Friday August 01, 2014 @05:38AM (#8118978)
Zero shared code (am not a programmer but work at Serif). The Affinity stuff is brand new from the ground up developed over the last 4 yrs by a dedicated team.

You're right that some Xara devs added to DrawPlus over the years, but the Affinity titles are fr fr fresh and have different goals and philosophy.

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