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ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust

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echelon · 1791162243 · focus · HN ↗
Haha, I wasn't ready to post this to HN. It's not anywhere close to ready. But thank you aghuang. (I want to post this again when we clear Beta phase.)
These are still super early alpha. All MIT/Apache licensed. No telemetry.
I'm going to try to drive these to 100% parity but it's going to take a minute. And I'll need lots of help. (Anyone want to join me? I'll pay stipends and bug bounties.)
I'm going to do Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, and Solidworks too. Probably a lot of stuff to collapse.
It's not just SaaSocalypse. Everything can be open source multiplatform Rust now.
Party like it's 1999 and the Internet / tech scene belongs to us again. We can literally deenshittify the world without breaking a sweat.
1. nayuki · 1791162657 · focus · HN ↗
  This project looks extremely ambitious. Are these applications coded by AI by any chance? I can't find any easy documentation about the development process.
  1. slopinthebag · 1791163996 · focus · HN ↗
    are you kidding? its all vibe coding
    alwillis · 1791177980 · focus · HN ↗
    > are you kidding? its all vibe coding
    Disagree.
    There's a difference between "vibe coding" and incorporating AI into a software development process. Hobbyists vibe code for shits and giggles on the weekends.
    These guys incorporated dozens of pre-existing Rust packages into their codebases, made sure the apps ran on macOS, Windows and Linux and in modern web browsers. That’s not vibe coding.
    Did they use coding agents to assist them? Of course! No different than teams at Microsoft, Google, Adobe, etc. Re-creating Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, InDesign, etc. from scratch in Rust is a huge undertaking; one that would have been impossible just a couple of years ago.
    slopinthebag · 1791180677 · focus · HN ↗
    no, they're vibcoding. they aren't looking at the code or even testing the output themselves.
  2. praet · 1791164754 · focus · HN ↗
    They are clearly all vibe-coded
2. 4b11b4 · 1791162716 · focus · HN ↗
  I like this mindset but damn that's a lot of tokens? At what cost? And then to continue to maintain and .. idk.. I suppose it'll work? If the motivation is strong enough and momentum is sustained?
  1. echelon · 1791162992 · focus · HN ↗
    Only have to pay the price once.
    I'm sick of Gimp, Krita, and Inkscape being the best Linux and open source have to offer.
    dofm · 1791163571 · focus · HN ↗
    I m not really a fan of GIMP but Krita and Inkscape are both serious and competent apps with their own principles and features, made by people who care and who seriously understand their knowledge domains, and I would rather have either than AI-slop clones of Adobe apps that enshrine Adobe’s dated workflows in open source that no human wrote.
    I think you can do this project of yours without being dismissive of the work (and the merits of the work) done by real people over years.
    Be careful of what you might damage by doing this.
    amlib · 1791165850 · focus · HN ↗
    >I think you can do this project of yours without being dismissive of the work (and the merits of the work) done by real people over years.
    Specially when the LLMs he is using to make this software were 100% trained and likely heavily influenced by the software he is shitting on.
    alightsoul · 1791171573 · focus · HN ↗
    Those dated workflows are what people seem to want, they say any creative app that doesn't behave like adobe is not worth considering
    dofm · 1791174722 · focus · HN ↗
    Maybe.
    Affinity works both similarly and differently and is now pretty popular.
    It’s different but really not inferior to Photoshop, for example (better live filters, cross model curves, better layer blending), and it’s not inferior to InDesign or Illustrator, mostly. It does have a file format that allows all three to coexist (in fact it effectively always did).
    They all have sufficient familiarity but their own advantages. The integration between the three apps is way ahead.
    I just don’t see why anyone would make open source apps that don’t move things forward (Krita and Inkscape do, in their own ways).
    It’s also a pretty hollow demonstration of AI, ultimately, to use it to just clone ripoffs, but it does have a sort of fractal self-similarity I suppose.
    alightsoul · 1791175546 · focus · HN ↗
    Affinity is not open source so there's that. There should be an OSS Photoshop drop in alternative like affinity tries to be
    dofm · 1791175925 · focus · HN ↗
    Is there an open source “drop-in alternative” for really any desktop app of substance? Plenty of excellent alternatives, very few that drop in and don’t have some kind of conceptual differences (even LibreOffice, which after all started as a closed source app).
    I don’t think anyone is served well by pursuing blatant cloning in open source. But if this is shoddy destiny of AI coding then I am at peace with it. People can use lazy knockoffs if they want.
    doc_ick · 1791165870 · focus · HN ↗
    What about consistent upgrades, updates, bug fixes?
    brazukadev · 1791166894 · focus · HN ↗
    I'd need to give at least some 10 years of your life to achieve this. GIMP, Krita and inkscape are amazing projects.
3. fschuett · 1791163384 · focus · HN ↗
  Just wanted to say at least for the non-creative apps I am already doing that at <a href="https://azul.rs" rel="nofollow">https://azul.rs
  But its a lot harder if you want to maintain at least some level of quality. For example, your PDF export exports texts as paths and correct PDF encoding and font subsetting took months of trial and error (I maintain the printpdf crate).
  So you have to actually use your apps, test extensively, etc. - don‘t underestimate the effort required for QA and testing.
4. diffstrokes · 1791163517 · focus · HN ↗
  Amazing work!
5. qchris · 1791163715 · focus · HN ↗
  I'd love to see something like this for Solidworks, but think you're in for a boatload of trouble there. OpenCASCADE is less capable than Parasolid, and a true Rust-based parametric geometry kernel capable of boolean joins, fillets, etc. needed for anything resembling a modern feature set is wickedly difficult (that's one of the reasons why everyone licenses existing ones and don't try to roll their own).
  Don't let that discourage you, though! A fast, local, fully-featured 3D parametric CAD program that takes advantage of modern hardware parallelism that can be extended/scripted is just basically one of the holy grails of software and even exploratory efforts might uncover some great paths forward to making that a reality!
  1. dofm · 1791164611 · focus · HN ↗
    Indeed. If you are going to burn tokens to clone something, then assembling a team of people who could help you burn those tokens in service of a bRep kernel (let alone a Parasolid kernel) would be an interesting undertaking.
    With photoshop, illustrator, etc., there’s a fair amount of code out there. No LLM has however ever seen the source code —- or I suspect even much detailed discussion —- of a bRep kernel better than Opencascade, but with the right people to decide what maths to work on, maybe there is progress to be made. This knowledge is held by few people, many of whom will now have retired!
  2. brookst · 1791164664 · focus · HN ↗
    It’s not what you’re after but onshape is pretty respectable, and the free offering is decent.
    qchris · 1791165653 · focus · HN ↗
    I've played around with most of the solutions in this space (OnShape, Fusion360, FreeCAD, Solvespace), but honestly at this point would probably just end up paying for the Solidworks hobbyist license; it's like $4/month and I have a Windows desktop available. That said, there's been some consensus built over the past few years about what the next-gen CAD software should probably look like, ranging from modern scripting capabilities to version control and intermediate shape representations.
    A big of the attraction of re-building this kind of foundational software isn't the base capability (commercial 3D CAD has barely even seen incremental improvements for more than a decade, in large part because it's just pretty well solved in the existing programs), but that a modern kernel would be a major step forward for unblocking implementation of some of those other capabilities.
6. rancar2 · 1791164392 · focus · HN ↗
  The videos of the features are very well done, and it looks like there is a unified version, which is not what any of the other products have. I look forward to the beta and beyond!
7. cjonas · 1791164627 · focus · HN ↗
  Despite whatever else happens with AI, I am excited about the near future where we have an open source version of basically every app. I hope this is the beginning of the end of the subscription model. Keep it up!
8. [deleted] · 1791165293 · focus · HN ↗
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9. timschmidt · 1791165496 · focus · HN ↗
  > AutoCAD, and Solidworks too
  You may want those in new high-performance infinite precision: <a href="https://github.com/timschmidt/hyperreal" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/timschmidt/hyperreal
  Exact curves: <a href="https://github.com/timschmidt/hypercurve" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/timschmidt/hypercurve
  Meshes: <a href="https://github.com/timschmidt/hypermesh" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/timschmidt/hypermesh
  and more in the ~22 crate stack.
  1. echelon · 1791179735 · focus · HN ↗
    This is fantastic! Thank you for building these and pointing me in this direction.
    I'll be pinging you about this in the future
10. adzm · 1791166823 · focus · HN ↗
  Do these expose a scripting API? ExtendScript is basically ecmascript3 used in Adobe apps, would be cool to have modern js available
11. hedgehog · 1791167676 · focus · HN ↗
  I'm doing a run at rebuilding a few of Apple's bundled apps (iPhoto, iTunes, Mail) as they were back around 2015, the replacements are much worse in the ways I care about so at this point rebuilding as GTK + Rust seems like a worthwhile experiment. I only started last week though so I don't have a sense of how long it will take yet.
12. alightsoul · 1791171378 · focus · HN ↗
  LibreOffice could see some UI and compatibility work, the compatibility work is mostly done
13. someothherguyy · 1791177356 · focus · HN ↗
  > Party like it's 1999 and the Internet / tech scene belongs to us again
  we remember different 1999s. i remember everyone pirating software made by large companies at that moment in time
girouetten21 · 1791162379 · focus · HN ↗
OMG, the page design is incredible
1. someothherguyy · 1791163534 · focus · HN ↗
  sarcasm?
nickc888 · 1791163228 · focus · HN ↗
i don't want to have to sign up / log in just to test drive the desktop apps
nickc888 · 1791163253 · focus · HN ↗
i don't want to have to sign up / log in just to test drive the desktop app?
1. somacore · 1791163908 · focus · HN ↗
  you don't have to?
  <a href="https://github.com/storytold" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/storytold
2. alwillis · 1791169187 · focus · HN ↗
  > i don't want to have to sign up / log in just to test drive the desktop app?
  Nope. I just downloaded and installed PhotoCraft [1] and launched it. No sign-up, dialog boxes, licensing agreement.
  The installer for LightCraft [2] isn't ready yet; building it from source took about 5 minutes.
  [1]: <a href="https://getartcraft.com/apps/photocraft" rel="nofollow">https://getartcraft.com/apps/photocraft
  [2]: <a href="https://getartcraft.com/apps/lightcraft" rel="nofollow">https://getartcraft.com/apps/lightcraft
CreepGin · 1791163313 · focus · HN ↗
Just curious, what is the subscription for? Purely for image generations? Are these built into the apps, or just a web feature?
1. echelon · 1791164391 · focus · HN ↗
  That's a web feature / separate open source app. It's open source HiggsField (app, backend infra).
  The Adobe apps are 100% open source, desktop, MIT, no telemetry.
  <a href="https://github.com/storytold/photocraft" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/storytold/photocraft etc.
_stillmind · 1791163485 · focus · HN ↗
I'll just keep using Affinity.
1. lukeify · 1791163828 · focus · HN ↗
  …which was bought by Canva and has already been enshittified.
  1. Gigachad · 1791164559 · focus · HN ↗
    It really hasn't been enshittified. They made everything that already existed in Affinity free without any catches. And then added some new AI powered editing tools which require a subscription. Tools which you don't need and can ignore easily.
    lukeify · 1791169333 · focus · HN ↗
    It was enshittified the moment it became a single app.
    Serious publishers don't want a photo editing program in their UI.
    alwillis · 1791172626 · focus · HN ↗
    > Serious publishers don't want a photo editing program in their UI.
    That's not how it works; when you're in the Layout Studio, that's your UI and nothing else.
    I think the confusion is that some tools appear in the Layout Studio and the Pixel Studio because they make sense in those contexts.
    Affinity lets you customize each Studio and the overall UI to your heart's content [1].
    [1]: <a href="https://www.affinity.studio/help/workspace-about-studios/#customizing-studios" rel="nofollow">https://www.affinity.studio/help/workspace-about-studios/#cu...
    dofm · 1791175302 · focus · HN ↗
    The way it works now is pretty much how studio link worked in v2 if you had all three apps (and indeed the file format was already shared by the three apps, under the hood).
    Nothing has been enshittified, and indeed if you knew anything about Affinity, the fact that they chose that name, had a three pointed logo and a single shared file architecture, and the way they have talked about the integration in the suite, you would have predicted this for v3 whether or not Canva bought them. This integration was always going to happen.
  2. alwillis · 1791170940 · focus · HN ↗
    > which was bought by Canva and has already been enshittified
    Absolutely not.
    Affinity just released an update [1] that delivered features like the Blend Tool that users have wanted for years. Cost: $0.
    In addition to MCP support, users can now automate the Affinity suite using JavaScript [2].
    [1]: <a href="https://www.affinity.studio/help/release-notes/" rel="nofollow">https://www.affinity.studio/help/release-notes/
    [2]: <a href="https://www.affinity.studio/help/scripting-in-affinity/" rel="nofollow">https://www.affinity.studio/help/scripting-in-affinity/
2. kmeisthax · 1791168017 · focus · HN ↗
  I am holding onto my copy of Affinity 2 and never letting go... mainly because Canva never bothered porting the third version to iPad and the whole point of me buying Affinity was that I could open the same project on iPad and Windows.
  1. dofm · 1791174874 · focus · HN ↗
    Affinity for iPad is still coming — apparently in November.
    It’s not a simple port, is it? The iPad apps have different UI.
3. t0bia_s · 1791177236 · focus · HN ↗
  [delayed]
slopinthebag · 1791164023 · focus · HN ↗
i like this project, the scope is enough to test most of the claims being made about vibe coding
1. Gigachad · 1791164685 · focus · HN ↗
  I'm interested to keep an eye on this. Doesn't seem like it's in a usable state right now but if it ends up workable this will really shake up the entire software industry.
  1. doc_ick · 1791165773 · focus · HN ↗
    I don’t think an initial usable program will shake things up. I think a persistent path for upgrade and continued support would. As much as users could trust open source, personally I’d need more consistency and reliance.
  2. slopinthebag · 1791167280 · focus · HN ↗
    yep. people make all sorts of unsubstantiated claims about the capabilities of agentic coding, this is a great test of those claims.
colesantiago · 1791164144 · focus · HN ↗
As soon as I saw this software about 2 days ago, I shorted Adobe Inc immediately.
Adobe to $120 at least.
1. brookst · 1791164531 · focus · HN ↗
  Same for Microsoft and others. There is still a business in selling and supporting software, but not in creating it, and barriers to entry are now purely about sales and service.
  1. somacore · 1791164945 · focus · HN ↗
    These companies are going to start tagging files not made by their software as not being "genuine" and freak out a bunch of IT people, who will then ban these apps.
    doc_ick · 1791166222 · focus · HN ↗
    I mean pdf is made by Adobe so they can change their standard. If I were distributing software I’d want guarantees it only ingests trusted data. No need for poisoned data further diving into the software/llms.
    kmeisthax · 1791167896 · focus · HN ↗
    PDF is an ISO standard. People are buying Acrobat to open, edit, and publish ISO-standard PDF files, NOT just "the shit Acrobat publishes".
    Now that being said, Adobe has plenty of non-standardized file formats that they absolutely could do AutoCAD-style shenanigans with.
    alwillis · 1791174836 · focus · HN ↗
    > These companies are going to start tagging files not made by their software as not being "genuine" and freak out a bunch of IT people, who will then ban these apps.
    Yeah, that's not going to happen.
    The backlash against Adobe would be intense from users and the industry for attempting to break JPEG's interoperability as an ISO standard.
    Let’s not get carried away here; Adobe has competed against hundreds of image editors ever since Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 and haven’t messed with the interoperability of their file formats.
    Just to be clear, nobody at Adobe is losing sleep over a suite of free apps that are knock-offs of Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, etc. for now.
2. Svoka · 1791164959 · focus · HN ↗
  Are we looking at the same stock? I am confused where this data is coming from.
  1. tomjakubowski · 1791166255 · focus · HN ↗
    [delayed]
  2. red369 · 1791166317 · focus · HN ↗
    [delayed]
praet · 1791164712 · focus · HN ↗
Adobe's moat is so small, so it's a matter of time until someone frustrated with their pricing would rather just rebuild the entire Creative Suite. I have also rebuilt the features from Photoshop I want using Rust recently (primarily because the company I work for started blocking Photopea, but I digress...) and it's been a great to work with. I can imagine the same would hold true for Lightroom, Illustrator, and Indesign.
Overall, looks like a cool project. Looking forward to the *Craft repos on github gaining traction
1. alightsoul · 1791167075 · focus · HN ↗
  I am sure adobe has known about this, so they pivoted to web aka cloud Saas for businesses a few years ago
2. tonyedgecombe · 1791179347 · focus · HN ↗
  [delayed]
3. Hobadee · 1791179457 · focus · HN ↗
  > someone frustrated with their pricing
  What about their service?
nonethewiser · 1791165422 · focus · HN ↗
Pretty crazy. I think we’re already very numb to AI. Can you imagine seeing something like this pop up 3 years ago? Youd have been dumbfounded and it would have been major news.
1. Gigachad · 1791165812 · focus · HN ↗
  I think there's some fatigue with all the brand new projects that have a skeleton of a project up that isn't really usable yet, where the original prompter doesn't bother to finish it off when it gets too hard. There's a lot of noise that doesn't translate to results so far.
  I think this project is interesting, but it's more a wait and see what happens kind of thing.
2. brazukadev · 1791165993 · focus · HN ↗
  "Built the hard way.
  Every Crafting App is written from scratch in Rust and held to the same rules."
  Yes. We are numb to AI (slop). Maybe if this project is still being developed in a year people might take it seriously.
  1. doc_ick · 1791166669 · focus · HN ↗
    Agreed. It’s hard to tell what apps will “survive” other then making a splash, especially since there is a constant reliance on llms with fluctuating costs and seemingly an over reliance on rust being the ideal language for everything.
3. jenniferhooley · 1791168103 · focus · HN ↗
  Have you tried the apps, or have any experience with Photoshop (complex photo or art or video projects)?
  Just curious, because I've worked within design/film etc. for years.
  I did open the PhotoCraft and loaded a few of my simpler layout projects. And literally nothing works.
  Let's see:
  1. Tried to select text, like the selector is off from the cursor.
  2. Tried to edit text, takes like 3 seconds to drag the slider for size, nothing happens (text doesn't change size).
  3. Absolutely everything is insanely laggy: selecting, switching, etc.
  4. Can't seem to expand/collapse folders.
  5. Everything shows shortcut keys - shortcut keys don't do anything.
  6. Tried to move something, it kind of got frozen for a while. Eventually disappeared I think?
  7. Clicked something and it auto selected a side panel (don't know why), hid the other panel, can't stretch, collapse the panels or get it back...
  This is actual joke software, I'm confused why you are impressed?
  1. nicknow · 1791173480 · focus · HN ↗
    Not surprised, I was super suspicious when I saw this post. Like I bet the underlying image/layout manipulation isn’t that technically challenging at this point, but there is just so much that goes into every single operation from the UI to validations to operation that even with the best use of AI I doubt you could replicate any of the image/video products without several months to a years worth of dedicated effort.
  2. OhSoHumble · 1791178906 · focus · HN ↗
    I didn't even bother downloading any of it to try it out - this is kind of what I expected. Maybe after a massive amount of token spend it'll be somewhat functional?
  3. rock_artist · 1791179361 · focus · HN ↗
    As many companies, we've started to use AI on a daily-basis. Yet, it didn't cut the need for testing (both automated and manual) and reviewing.
    Now here we see a fully blown suite which is already alarming for basic testability.
    Also, we had several apps targeting directly at Adobe in the past.
    * Blackmagic DaVinci is the biggest, and it also bought several companies to start fusing a one-stop solution.
    * Affinity also started with single app that got attention before being swallowed into Canva.
    Leaving compatibility and ui-workflow (which is important to existing users), It's much more sane to start and focus on a single app instead of a fully blown package.
    From Adobe/Creative Cloud users, I do know Acrobat Pro is one of the problematic apps they have in terms (it freezes, guess a lot of legacy code, etc). And yet, even where there is some competition on PDF editors, Acrobat is still strong also due to UX and features.
brazukadev · 1791166079 · focus · HN ↗
Honestly the scrollbar is infuriating. Can't expect any better attention to UX from the apps.
1. echelon · 1791167066 · focus · HN ↗
  I'm sorry! I didn't mean to publish the repos so soon. This project is brand new. There's been a lot of excitement about this, but we have a long way to go.
  If this is about the desktop apps and not the website, I'd love it if you could file an issue. We're going to work through everything.
  1. brazukadev · 1791167826 · focus · HN ↗
    Sorry me, I shouldn't be putting you down for developing something cool. The mix of grandiose with slop is a bit weird and dangerous tho a bit of humbleness would fit well as we know the effort you put to this isn't much yet. Unless you have years of experience in the video/image editing software.
    Nobody is beating Adobe with "claude create for me a clone of adobe apps". Someone that knows what they are doing need to be behind it. It might be you but it would take years of experience if you don't have them yet.
adzm · 1791167563 · focus · HN ↗
I'm curious if there are design parents or anything that could put these kinds of projects in legal peril
kmeisthax · 1791167744 · focus · HN ↗
> ArtCraft is a form of "fair source" software. It's like free beer in that we give you the code, but there are a few small limitations on what you can do with it.
As seen on the main Artcraft repo. There's other tools that are MIT-licensed, although given that people are noting that this is AI-created the notion of copyright on this is suspect to begin with. Remember kids: all AI slop is born public domain because machines don't have a soul for the purpose of copyright law. And probably also the 13th amendment. Don't upload your brain, kids.
Anyway, let me get up on my soapbox and talk about these "have your cake and eat it too" licenses, that try to be source-available while privileging one particular vendor as the Blessed Owner with special monetization powers. To put it shortly, this doesn't work, because it mixes all the bad parts of FOSS with all the bad parts of proprietary software.
The business model of proprietary software does not work with even source-available terms. Proprietary software is a game of becoming essential to your customers and then taking them for everything they've got. All the successful proprietary companies are, effectively, selling legacy software that was useful to a group of companies a long time ago, but is now so deeply integrated into their IT systems they don't even know they have it until the licensing police show up. "You can use it for free but can't sell it" is anathema to this: it is specifically the "use" part that you're worried about.
Likewise, being able to modify the software - even only for internal uses - means that the proprietary owner has to compete against their own customers for ongoing payments and revenue. Again, if you've dug your talons into a big org to the point where you're indispensable, you don't want your customers making their own forks of your code. You want them paying $$$$/mo for enterprise support.
What FOSS is doing is basically promising to never do these things. If your goal is to make money, then adopting FOSS is like a cat going vegan. And the half-measure source-available licenses don't help, because you wind up conceding all the things that make you money just so you can claim ownership over things most people weren't interested in.
also, from their CLAUDE.md:
> Clean-room. Never read, disassemble or copy anything inside the Illustrator bundle (names/listings only). Never copy Adobe icons, artwork, presets or wording beyond feature names. Behaviour comes from public docs and black-box observation of the running app with synthetic documents only (screenshots by window id, stored under plan/illustrator/screenshots/, never committed). Never copy GPL/AGPL code (Inkscape, lib2geom…).
There is no such thing as clean-room vibe coding. Every line of FOSS code has been trained on. If you use any AI coding model, you are generating code that is going to be similar to copylefted code. There is no "MIT/Apache only" model out there you can use.
Also, no, switching to GPL doesn't help. Actually, it is my opinion that you cannot meaningfully comply with GPL while vibe-coding, because you have changed the definition of "corresponding source code" from a bunch of .rs files to a number of prompts being handed off to a cloud model. Remember: according to GPL, the source code is not "the thing you put into the compiler", it's "the thing the developers prefer to edit to alter the program". Otherwise, you could say "the source code is this uncommented ASM listing" and sidestep the GPL entirely. What we're doing with AI is the same idea, except instead of going down one level of abstraction, we're going up one.
1. alightsoul · 1791170332 · focus · HN ↗
  Huh? If ai can ingest books and that is judged as fair use, why is it not the same for code?
ToyKeeper · 1791171873 · focus · HN ↗
It's wild that anyone still uses Adobe software these days. Adobe is one of the most famous companies for enshittification, and the open-source alternatives are generally very good.
Personally, I switched to open-source alternatives way back in the late 1900s, and they've only continued to improve ever since. Adobe has been lagging behind for over a quarter of a century, in the ways which matter to me, and they keep getting farther behind as they turn to worse and worse methods of extorting money from people.
YMMV, of course.
I can get behind almost anything which reduces lock-in for Adobe's remaining customers, but from what I see in other comments, this probably ain't it. It seems very vibey and buggy. But maybe after more work is put in, it could be good. It looks like it wasn't supposed to go public yet, and they're aware that it's not ready yet.
imagetic · 1791179878 · focus · HN ↗
I’m skeptical.
hypfer · 1791180131 · focus · HN ↗
The most interesting part to me is their PDF stuff, as that has been at times somewhat lackluster on Linux.
I'm not sure if it really makes sense to copy the UI and visual language of the source that verbatim (and I believe that Adobe will rightfully retaliate on specifically that), but for the time being, that's neat.
I bet the industry didn't expect that their IP laundering tools would eventually launder their own IP.

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