The discussion centers on whether a solo, AI-assisted rewrite of SPSS in Rust addresses a genuine market need for non-coders or merely fragments the ecosystem with an unproven tool. Participants strongly disagree on the utility of 'safe' Rust for statistical software, with some arguing it prevents crashes while others contend it does not ensure mathematical correctness.
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filmcraft
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storytold / filmcraft
filmcraft
FilmCraft: An open-source, nonlinear video editor written from scratch in pure Rust
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FilmCraft: An open-source, nonlinear video editor written from scratch in pure Rust
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- storytold/photocraft · linked in 4 of the same discussions
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by 6-hour interval4 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2026-10-01 15:22:45 UTC to 2026-10-06 17:20:10 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Oct 1, 12:00 | 2026-10-01 12:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-01 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 1, 18:00 | 2026-10-01 18:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2, 00:00 | 2026-10-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-02 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2, 06:00 | 2026-10-02 06:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-02 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2, 12:00 | 2026-10-02 12:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-02 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 2, 18:00 | 2026-10-02 18:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3, 00:00 | 2026-10-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-03 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3, 06:00 | 2026-10-03 06:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-03 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3, 12:00 | 2026-10-03 12:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-03 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3, 18:00 | 2026-10-03 18:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4, 00:00 | 2026-10-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-04 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4, 06:00 | 2026-10-04 06:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-04 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4, 12:00 | 2026-10-04 12:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-04 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4, 18:00 | 2026-10-04 18:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5, 00:00 | 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-05 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5, 06:00 | 2026-10-05 06:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-05 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5, 12:00 | 2026-10-05 12:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-05 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5, 18:00 | 2026-10-05 18:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 6, 00:00 | 2026-10-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-06 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 6, 06:00 | 2026-10-06 06:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-06 12:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 6, 12:00 | 2026-10-06 12:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-06 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesBIbigwheels·Oct 6, 2026
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (Photoshop)
https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (Illustrator)
https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft (Premiere)
https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft (Lightroom)
https://github.com/storytold/printcraft (Acrobat Pro)
https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft (After Effects)
https://github.com/storytold/designcraft (InDesign)
In Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rustmoments ago I saw a reddit post that claimed to have cloned several adobe applications and open sourcing them on github, is this the one?
edit: it's not, the reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1wxmqpt/ive_created_o...
and github repositories
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (Photoshop)
https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (Illustrator)
https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft (Premiere)
https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft (Lightroom)
https://github.com/storytold/printcraft (Acrobat Pro)
https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft (After Effects)
https://github.com/storytold/designcraft (InDesign)
In Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite projectWe're going to take back the internet and own tech forever.
I know I have a few anti-AI haters on HN, but hear me out. I'm currently using Opus 5.5 to create 100% pure-Rust, immediate mode rendering, open source implementations of Adobe's entire suite:
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (Photoshop)
https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (Illustrator)
https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft (Premiere)
https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft (Lightroom)
https://github.com/storytold/printcraft (Acrobat Pro)
https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft (After Effects)
https://github.com/storytold/designcraft (InDesign)
I got bit by the dark pattern "cancellation fee" one too many times.
AI lets us take back tech and set the clock back to the pre-shitty era. But now you can just create 1:1 functional equivalents, clean room, that are highly
Read the rest
performant and cross-platform. Nothing is stopping you.
We'll replace Google Search, we'll build our own smartphones, we'll build better infra. We'll remove all the ads and de-enshittify the entire tech world.
Big tech sowed the seeds of their own commodification with AI. It's all going to come down now that we can rebuild everything without toiling for years to even get close to scaling software capability moats.
The internet is going to reset to 1990-2004 (pre-facebook / "web 2.0" era). The indie web era. Everything is going to be reborn as open source.
We're going to own it all.
I nearly did this, but then I swapped to writing native desktop apps and egui - Rust is still worth it.
I've stopped using Tauri and gone with 100% egui. It's cross platform and excellent, and if you give it design constraints it will look beautiful.
Check out my 100% adobe clean room reimplementations:
https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
https://github.com/storytold/drawcraft (going to rename this vectorcraft)
The #1 thing for the Rust project to do is make Rust faster to compile.
Rust is the agentic AI language. It just needs to lean in and go faster.
In How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026