Photocraft repo: clean-room Photoshop reimplementation in pure Rust hits 44.5k GitHub stars
victor_explore · x · 2026-10-11
The author shared the GitHub repo behind the viral tweet: storytold/photocraft, a clean-room open-source reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust, dual-licensed Apache-2.0/MIT, now at 44.5k stars, 6.8k forks, and 1,403 commits. The repo includes a plugin system, perf tooling, a roadmap, and AGENTS.md, indicating an actively maintained project. It is the Photoshop piece of the claimed 7-app Adobe rebuild.
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