Penpot significantly feat comparable with Figma with new Designer/Dev release

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Remember when Adobe bought Figma for $20 Billion and then open source alternative Penpot then raised $8M towards being a legit community driven alternative?

Penpot have now, four months later, released a 'feature parity' release in adding Flexible layouts and better Dev support tools.

Penpot could now be a serious consideration for design & dev teams with this release.

> Remember when Adobe bought Figma for $20 Billion and then open source alternative Penpot then raised $8M towards being a legit community driven alternative?

It is not 'a legit community driven alternative' since that $8 million of VC money is not theirs. Penpot is now controlled by VCs and it is growth at all costs and head for a acquisition or IPO.

Who is to say that Penpot would start close-sourcing some features or having a secret closed-source version only available as a SaaS offering and some of the code won't be available to the community?

Depending on the VCs involvement and how much Penpot is making, I won't be surprised to see Penpot starting to hide some features in the open-source version and add them only in the paid hosted SaaS version.

It has 20k+ stars on GitHub. They have enough support to not sell themselves out to VCs.

The number of stars a project has is meaningless to whether if the company would decide to sell themselves out or not.

No, that's not happening.

Does it have anything close to Figma’s auto-layout capabilities?

Have a look at their new flexible layout feature. The way the feature is designed around the css layout spec makes for a killer feature IMHO. Finally getting designers talking and thinking within the constraints that devs are bound by.

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