079 - One Developer Used AI to Build Adobe Apps. Now He's Taking on Microsoft Office.

Opublikowano: 2026-10-11

After drawing attention earlier in October for using AI to build open-source alternatives to seven Adobe applications in Rust, developer Brandon Thomas and the ArtCraft project have moved into Microsoft Office territory with three new projects: WordCraft, GridCraft, and DeckCraft. WordCraft targets Word, with a familiar ribbon, styles, tables, track changes, references, and mail merge, reading and writing Word documents and exporting to PDF, OpenDocument, rich text, Markdown, and plain text. GridCraft targets Excel, supporting spreadsheet formulas, dynamic arrays, tables, charts, conditional formatting, and PivotTables, opening and saving...