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GraphiteEditor
Graphite
Rust2022–2025
GraphiteEditor / Graphite

Graphite

Community-built comprehensive 2D content creation appplication for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics powered by a node-based procedural graphics engine

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Community-built comprehensive 2D content creation appplication for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics powered by a node-based procedural graphics engine

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

I love Inkscape so much. I use it every other week to make presentations, slides or just simple graphics when I need it. I illustrated my thesis with it. Another piece of 2D…

Jerry2 used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 3:30:57 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-12-19 15:20:34 UTC to 2025-08-13 21:58:23 UTC.

0123452022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514

What Hacker News says

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LegionMammal978·Aug 13, 2025
My apologies, it looks like it was switched over [0] to an external root-finder crate poly-cool [1] soon after I wrote my comment. (I should know better than to link to branches directly, but there weren't any useful tags on the repo, so I got lazy. For reference, I was trying to link to [2].) Curiously, the poly-cool crate appears to use the monomial basis instead of the Bernstein basis that the old version was using. [0] https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite/pull/3031 [1] https://crates.io/crates/poly-cool [2] https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite/blob/beb1c6ae6489...
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