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    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!


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


And I think this was a few years back. Imagine still having that in your readme.


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.


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




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