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Craft apps — clean-room Word/Excel/PowerPoint/AutoCAD/Pro Tools in Rust
A family of open-source, clean-room reimplementations of proprietary desktop apps (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, AutoCAD-style CAD, Avid Pro Tools) written in pure Rust by one author, all published Oct 7.
Why it matters
An LLM-era audacity play: rewriting entire proprietary application suites from scratch in Rust, openly, as individual focused repos — a test of how far clean-room reimplementation has come with AI-assisted coding.
What you could build with it
A startup building document tooling could fork the WordCraft or GridCraft codebases as a starting point for a privacy-first, self-hosted office suite aimed at regulated industries that cannot send documents to cloud AI services.
Does it hold up?
Too early to judge — all repos are days old with a few hundred stars each; no independent builds, compatibility tests, or file-format fidelity reports yet.
Built with Craft apps
- storytold/cadcraftgithub · 443 ★ · AutoCAD-style CAD and drafting app in pure Rust — sibling repo by the same author.
- storytold/soundcraftgithub · 321 ★ · Avid Pro Tools reimplementation in pure Rust — sibling repo by the same author.
- storytold/gridcraftgithub · 314 ★ · Excel-style spreadsheet in pure Rust — sibling repo by the same author.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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