Artcraft's Rust rewrite of MS Office and Adobe suite impresses at ~50x speed but lacks VBA

davidmanheim · x · 2026-11-04

After trying @getartcraft — a Rust rewrite cloning the MS Office and Adobe suites — davidmanheim reports "not only does it just work, it's like 50x faster."

Two real-world shortcomings so far:

Wordcraft can't open PDFs directly; he has to open them in PdfCraft and export
Gridcraft doesn't support VBA, so it can't fully replace Excel for complicated workflows (though pivot tables and lookups work)

Verdict: solid for daily use, but macro support and file-format compatibility remain the blockers for a drop-in replacement.

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