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A New Open-Source Figma Alternative Built Entirely in Rust! 🦀🔥 Meet desigma — a free, local-first, open-source design tool that’s taking a very different approach to Figma. No Electron. No web wrapper. No mandatory cloud. Just a native desktop application built with Rust. And it’s surprisingly ambitious: • Native Rust architecture — Built with egui and a custom tiny-skia renderer, with a focus on performance and deterministic rendering. • Figma compatibility — Import .fig files, including components, styles, layouts, and prototype interactions. • Modern design tools — Auto Layout, components, variants, variables, vector editing, and interactive prototyping. • Developer handoff — Generate CSS, Tailwind, React, SwiftUI, and Jetpack Compose code directly from designs. • Local-first & offline — Your design files stay on your machine. No cloud subscription required. • MCP integration 🤖 — Includes a local MCP server that lets AI agents inspect and modify design files, generate code, and automate parts of the design workflow. That last part is especially interesting to me. We’re already seeing AI coding agents transform software development. But design tools are still largely built around humans manually interacting with a GUI. What happens when design files become something AI agents can directly understand and manipulate? Imagine an agent that can inspect your UI designs, modify components, generate implementation code, and iterate alongside you — without relying entirely on screenshots and mouse clicks. desigma is still in early alpha. Collaboration, plugins, and Figma compatibility need more work, and its MCP server doesn’t yet control the live editor. But I really like the direction. Open-source. Local-first. Agent-accessible. Maybe the future of design tools isn’t just another Figma clone. Maybe it’s a design environment where humans and AI agents can work together as first-class participants. GitHub: github.com/deepfounder-ai/de…