[diacritica]

I hear you! The thing is that sometimes (only sometimes) you do need to use the best technology for a project. In this case, Penpot's very own nature demands technology that is super-performant manipulating zillions of vectors and mathematical objects. I'm not saying you couldn't do this with standard JS or TS but to reach this status in 1 year we needed to go for this route. Anyway, we have plans for a more straightforward plugin contribution architecture so that shouldn't be a problem, but the "core core", yeah, it was our choice, same with SVG, a tough choice but it was worth the challenge. Thanks!!!

[gggtt]

That seems totally fair, thanks for your response. If the core is powerful thx to the choice of tech while plugins can be contributed easily then it sounds like a great plan !