Open-source Rust Photoshop clone PhotoCraft hits 48.5k stars with 7,000 contributors in days
alfcnz · x · 2026-10-12
PhotoCraft, an open-source photo editor written from scratch in pure Rust, has exploded on GitHub: 48.5k stars, 7.8k forks, 7,000 contributors and roughly 1,500 improvements merged within 5 days of launch. The viral tweet joked that this free "Photoshop clone" killed commercial desktop software—AI-assisted development made massive community collaboration unprecedentedly efficient.
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