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Inkscape is ok. It has serious issues though - pretty terrible performance, confusing UI, still requires X11 on Mac, etc. Probably still the best free SVG editor but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call it good.
> confusing UI Anything particular you have in mind?
Well for a start I can literally never find the option to show the tool docks (fill & stroke, align & distribute etc).
They're not in the View or Window menus.