have added many more technical and strategic reasons, including
expanding the potential developer pool (There are a lot more Javascript developers than C++ and the inverse relationship is accelerating because Javascript can run on both the server and client), but the main reason I would do it personally is because it's fun and it would expand my skill sets in new and creative ways:
Fun is good. So is expanding your skillset.
If you look at my general blog posts you'll see I'm all over it ... perhaps a bit too much:
Most people writing a cloud platform for logistics stay clear of developing their vector graphics skills. I enjoy that as well. In addition to things like this (Which I authored all the repositories for, setup Travis Integration, etc.):
https://github.com/superflycss/superflycss
So go ahead and rewrite Inkscape in Javascript. But don't distract the Inkscape Developers with calls to rewrite perfectly functional code
Transfer - not rewrite
for an extremely well functioning program. Those of us who actually use Inkscape for:
- Art
- Diagrams
- Active images
- Flyers and newsletters
- Mailmerged certificates
- eBook covers
And it is amazing already for all those use cases, but not for collaborative ones where we want to embed Inskcape in the browser and collaborate, save, and fork SVG projects. All the use cases you site will be greatly enhanced if Inkscape had the ability to be browser embedded.
appreciate having developer time available for fixing any bugs (I've never found any) or carefully adding new features, rather than rewriting a hugely featureful implementation of a solution to a naturally complex problem domain for fun and experience.
Last time I checked Inkscape was open source and all ideas were welcome. It could easily be something that accelerates Inkscape development, by drawing more contributors, modularizing platform components, increasing developer collaboration, and in general making development of Inskcape more interesting by increasing the number of use cases that the Inkscape platform can handle.
Who had heard of VSCode a year ago ...
Ole