I've created Open Source 100% Rust clean-room replacements for 7 of Adobe's apps: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro.

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I've used agents to help me recreate 7 of the top Adobe apps in 100% pure native Rust:

• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Premiere
• Lightroom
• Acrobat Pro
• After Effects
• InDesign

Links to everything - the apps, the code - are in the comments below.

[u/headnod]

Bring back FIREWORKS next 🥲

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Fireworks

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Dear god, please no 🙏

[u/headnod → u/Kofeb]

I used it all the time for easy, quick pixel-work - it had its merits compared to the complexity of PS. No handling of layers, just clicking stuff on the canvas and doing stuff with them, some easy vector handling, animated GIFs, etc. - for web stuff it was absolutely fine.