Developer clones Adobe’s creative suite with Claude and Rust
A developer just released seven open-source alternatives to Adobe's flagship apps, using Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to write clean-room clones in Rust. Dubbed Artcraft, the suite mimics Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom with zero Adobe code under MIT/Apache licenses. While complex PSD files and plugins are still half-baked, it shows how AI is dismantling the moat around expensive legacy software.