Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS

Commenters focused on a project claiming to reimplement Adobe apps in Rust as open-source. Several users (clueless, fotcorn) insisted it isn’t decompiled Photoshop but a clean-room reimplementation and pointed to the project's GitHub (poly2it, paulhart). Others noted the project is early alpha, incomplete, and monetized on the project's site (clueless), with some saying the current builds are effectively unusable (gauntr). A few responders mocked the marketing rhetoric about “built the hard way” and joked about boilerplate files like CLAUDE.md (bilekas, grmnygrmny2).

Opinion splits around legality, trust, and broader implications. RGS1811 and labrador warned of potential lawsuits if actual decompilation occurred and questioned whether maintainers will invest the effort to earn user trust. In contrast, antesaj, jonplackett, and qarl framed clean-room reimplementations as empowering - letting users run personalized versions of SaaS tools - and argued that agents and LLMs make behavior-driven reimplementation easy. Others stressed that the real moat may be cloud services and collaboration rather than front-end code (chris_money202). The debate thus centers on whether the project is technically legitimate and practically useful, versus risky, incomplete, or simply hype.