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Adobe suite rebuilt in Rust
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Adobe suite rebuilt in Rust

The gist

Developer Brandon Thomas used Claude Opus 5.5 to rebuild seven Adobe apps in Rust, free.
Testers report fast starts but crashes and slow files; full parity may take months.

How it unfolded

  1. Oct 7, 2026PetaPixel reports developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic's Opus 5.5 AI model to recreate seven of Adobe's most popular apps in Rust.
  2. Oct 8, 2026Gizmodo reports Thomas, based in Atlanta, released the apps free on GitHub as Photocraft, Vectorcraft, Filmcraft, Lightcraft, Printcraft, Effectcraft and Designcraft under the umbrella project Artcraft.
  3. Oct 10, 2026XDA reports a Reddit user announced the seven open-source Rust-based apps created with Opus 5.5.

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