What does HackerNews think of pencil?

The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Language: JavaScript

#11 in Electron
#50 in JavaScript
#23 in Node.js
Pencil ­– an open-source GUI prototyping tool | Mar 2023
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good evening, was looking for the source and i find in the home page:

https://github.com/evolus/pencil
Pencil ­– an open-source GUI prototyping tool | Mar 2023
https://github.com/evolus/pencil
Pencil Project – open-source GUI prototyping tool | May 2021
The code is here: https://github.com/evolus/pencil It is based on Electron. The last commit was 1.5 years ago.
Uxbox – The open-source prototyping tool | Nov 2019
Looks very similar to another open-source prototyping tool:

http://pencil.evolus.vn/

https://github.com/evolus/pencil

Which tool do you use for making software engineering diagrams? | Jun 2017
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I also use pen and paper a lot. Found Pencil (https://github.com/evolus/pencil) which is similar to Inkscape (UI/UX is little better).

Will check LucidCharts for teams.
Pencil: open-source GUI prototyping tool | Nov 2016
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Looks like the original creators rebooted it under the github project https://github.com/evolus/pencil.
Pencil: open-source GUI prototyping tool | Nov 2016
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Well they had 3.0 RC1 released in July 2016 http://pencil.evolus.vn/Next.html and their GitHub page at https://github.com/evolus/pencil/ is fairly active.