Devs are cloning Photoshop in Rust and open-sourcing it — and AI-native tools need rethinking
ravisparikh · x · 2026-10-07
anvisha notes people are cloning Photoshop in Rust and open-sourcing the results — much of it slop, some solid. Her point: Photoshop shipped in 1990, but we now have a magic paintbrush, so today's creative tools must be designed differently rather than copying old paradigms. She also hints her team is releasing their own version. The post was amplified by ravisparikh.
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