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

98 points · 99 comments · aghuang

  1. echelon · · 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 · · 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 · · focus · HN ↗
        are you kidding? its all vibe coding
        1. alwillis · · 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.

          1. slopinthebag · · focus · HN ↗
            no, they're vibcoding. they aren't looking at the code or even testing the output themselves.
      2. praet · · focus · HN ↗
        They are clearly all vibe-coded
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