078 - Seven Adobe Clones, Built with AI and Rust?

Opublikowano: 2026-10-09

What if the hardest part of building software stopped being writing the software? This episode covers ArtCraft, a project from developer Brandon Thomas that has released open-source, clean-room alternatives to seven Adobe applications: PhotoCraft for Photoshop, VectorCraft for Illustrator, FilmCraft for Premiere, LightCraft for Lightroom, EffectCraft for After Effects, DesignCraft for InDesign, and PDFCraft for Acrobat. These are working native applications written in Rust, with several able to compile to WebAssembly and run in a browser. The repositories describe each one as a clean-room reimplementation, built from public specifications and observed...