Several of my kids use Paint.net all the time when making 2d assets for Love2d, and I've used it 15 years before them doing the same thing for FreeBasic. Paint

Several of my kids use Paint.net all the time when making 2d assets for Love2d, and I've used it 15 years before them doing the same thing for FreeBasic. Paintbrush.app isn't quite on part with Paint.net's features, although there was no technical limitation in Cocoa causing this. Acorn is more featureful, but trying to be more like a mini-Photoshop than an advanced MSPaint. It's very powerful but it trades off simplicity to get it. I tried my hand at making my own Paint.net clone for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) during my first year of learning Cocoa (2008) but it only ended up being a learning opportunity for me and nothing useful came out of it. Mostly because I had no motivation. I was sharing my progress in #macdev on freenode but there is absolutely no excitement or culture of encouragement in that channel. And for some reason I feed off other people's excitement, it motivates me tremendously and I get 100x productivity boost. But if there's none (and no paycheck), I drop to 1/100 productivity. Honestly I'd like to try my hand at it again. I've learned a lot in the past 10 years. But I just don't have the time.