Solo Developer Rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust Using Claude

(tomshardware.com)

13 points | by ianbooker 10 hours ago ago

9 comments

  • _aavaa_ 9 hours ago ago

    I really wish this had stayed out of the media for another few months. Right now the apps look like the creative suite, but are clearly missing lots of functionality and it’s still too early to say if they’ll reach the same quality bar as the thing they’re recreating.

    • rekabis 6 hours ago ago

      Agreed. And I seriously doubt that this is anything else other than spaghetti code with oodles of software-bug meatballs throughout.

      I’m cautiously optimistic, but I’m holding back until it’s been extensively stress-tested.

      Plus, who’s to say it isn’t crammed with telemetry? Someone is gonna have to break out the wireshark and isolated VM to figure that out. Assuming it hasn’t been built to recognize testing environments and to shut the hell up when it’s in one.

      • _aavaa_ 6 hours ago ago

        The source code will tell you if it has telemetry. Inspect it. There’s no need to speculate on that.

  • clueless 9 hours ago ago

    how many times is this gonna be reposted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49993722

  • wg0 9 hours ago ago

    What's the legal status on this?

    PS: They have now Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and even AutoCad clone too in progress with repos receiving commits very few minutes.

  • edmundronald 8 hours ago ago

    Obviously if every programmer points their agents at the repo to contribute this is going to snowball pretty fast

  • androiddrew 9 hours ago ago

    Where is this project located? Asking for a friend...

  • Kuyawa 9 hours ago ago

    I'll port it to Swift just because...

    Molon labe