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

103 points · 122 comments · aghuang

  1. colesantiago · · focus · HN ↗
    As soon as I saw this software suite about 2 days ago, I shorted Adobe Inc immediately.

    Adobe to $120 price target at least, could be even lower.

    1. brookst · · 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 · · 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.
        1. doc_ick · · 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, not only for software but for non-tech peoples trusts. No need for poisoned data further diving into the software/llms.
          1. kmeisthax · · 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.

        2. alwillis · · 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.

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