# The artist-programmer barrier and krita

**URL:** <https://krita-artists.org/t/the-artist-programmer-barrier-and-krita/45157>\
**Category:** Artists Feedback & Testing\
**Created:** [August 4, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/the-artist-programmer-barrier-and-krita/45157 "2022-08-04T23:11:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ralek](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/ralek/32/107058_2.png) [@Ralek](https://krita-artists.org/u/Ralek)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 1:26am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/the-artist-programmer-barrier-and-krita/45157/5 "2022-08-05T01:26:33Z")

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I’ve had my fair share of quickly fixed bugs, bugs that have been around for years, quickly added small features, turned down features, etc. I understand, I do. I know I just look like some dude complaining his ultra specific request didn’t get added. I highly respect and admire the devs who work with me and everyone else at the same time to triage when some new bug surfaces, and I thank devs whenever physically possible when talking about features they had added that I use regularly just to drill home that that effort was not wasted.

But I think this frustration is coming from somewhere deeper. I’m not asking for a feature, I’m just asking for some sort of hope.

You say:

> [@kaichi1342](#):
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> Its not like krita has dedicated dev for animation, vector, digital painting, photo manip, traditional painting emulation. Who’s problem should the few dev focus on?

Any. Absolutely any of them. Make any of them amazing. I legitimately don’t care which, making literally any of those you listed noticeably faster or better in any way would be a plus in my eyes.

Krita is spreading outward, and rarely if ever growing up. Instead of improving the current tools, we get new ones that accomplish close to if not the exact same thing as previous ones, with no workflow or optimization improvements over the already existing solution.

> [@kaichi1342](#):
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> Ill give you an example

While all your examples are great, I would consider most of those very minor things that I personally wouldn’t get up in arms over. Yes a cooler text tool or pressure toggles or stuff like that would be neat, and I’ve already [spoke my piece](https://krita-artists.org/t/is-there-something-we-can-help-with-with-my-knowledge-proposal-for-the-forum/42722/36) about the eraser toggle, but I’m aiming a bit more at the core with this thread.

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