Programming language for GIMP fork's rewrite

[Dukc]

On Friday, 3 July 2020 at 09:10:04 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> I think a full rewrite isn't an issue here, especially the 
> points of that blog article are not applying here, because this 
> isn't a replacement to GIMP where GIMP wouldn't continue 
> development, it's just a new program from a separate team. So I 
> think rewrite is a great idea.

According to their main page [1] they are going to "permissively" 
license the new version. That might be the real reason: they 
probably could not do that if they just refactored the old code.

1: https://glimpse-editor.github.io/