Over at #Inkscape, we are currently reverse-engineering the file format of Adobe #Illustrator so that we can natively read those files. We’re making good progress, but let me tell you…

.ai files are by a wide margin the most convoluted, confusing, redundant mess I have had the displeasure of working with.

But that‘s what you get when you have 40 years of historical cruft, with no conscious effort of maintaining consistency. We should not make the same mistake with our additions to #SVG.