>>4321868Darktable is a great example of why open source software will never properly take off. It's dominated by autistic developers who shouldn't even be in the same room of anyone with a say in UX.
>darktable is created for photographers, by photographers. Correction: by autistic photographers for autistic photographers.
Sure, it's "technically correct" in practically any regard you examine it.
The software works great if, at the beginning of the process, you can look at the photo and know just about what modules and settings it's going to need to get a desired final result. That works great for optimizing fidelity of over-the-horizon wind turbine pictures and other autistic photographic obsessions.
It fucking falls apart for the vast majority of photographers who need a degree of explorability in their developing process, because frankly, the vast majority of good art is inherently ambiguous and has too many variables to consider with various compromises and no right answer.
This makes the autistic photographer seethe, of course, who'll find ways to dismiss this art on technical grounds then blame women as to why 99% of people prefer that photography over their autistic train photo collection carefully curated for maximum sharpness and details present regardless of any compositional considerations.
And that's the kind of photographer Darktable works well for (and generally, the example of the failure of open source software to succeed).
