Photocraft: An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop

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Why these related posts were being flagged repeatedly?

I understand that software might be copying feature set of a commercial product and might be vibe coded and might be very buggy or incomplete but is that enough to flag these posts?

> is that enough to flag these posts?

No it's not. Especially because this phenomenon is going to become commonplace. It is very easy to spin up two agents - one to look at the original code and write a spec for it - and the second to implement that spec. That's what's required for "legal" clean-room reverse engineering.

At the very best - these flags are sticking one's head into the sand.

Yes - but this one particular didn't even look at the code they claim it to be clean room implementation. At best, it could be that they started with screenshots of every screen and menu and then started all the way from there.

Well - what I described is also called a clean-room. But sure, I imagine it wouldn't be hard to do with screenshots.

I truly wonder what's to become of copyright.

Photocraft: An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust

Repo: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft

previously on HN, several times

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49958850

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=getartcraft.com

Copying is the easy part but who will take the burden of creating new features if the results of their efforts will be copied so easily?

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981449

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Seems legit. Wonder what it would take to get this working in the browser.

Probably not much because the emgui library already runs in browser.

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