# Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free open-source Rust rewrite of Adobe's creative apps, liked for its UI and permissive license. Critics say basic features are missing and bugs are likely.

## Why people recommend it

- Clean UI, native Rust app (2 comments): "The UI is great but even basic features are relatively incomplete." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982015)) "it's a rust based desktop app and not based on electron" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985318))
- Promising open alternative to GIMP (2 comments): "This is sweet. I've already modified it to have a couple features I miss from Krita" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984071)) "This actually gives a pretty promising alternative to GIMP on Linux." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982700))

## What people warn about

- Basic features missing or incomplete (4 comments): "The UI is great but even basic features are relatively incomplete." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982015)) "Missing and incomplete features, missing templates, presets and it's likely to be abandoned as issues will start to pile up." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982228)) "It hasn't had a massive QA team (and customer base) go through all the missing features and bugs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982137))
- Likely buggy, messy code (2 comments): "I seriously doubt that this is anything else other than spaghetti code with oodles of software-bug meatballs throughout." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50007731)) "It hasn't had a massive QA team (and customer base) go through all the missing features and bugs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982137))
- Unclear long-term maintenance (2 comments): "Missing and incomplete features, missing templates, presets and it's likely to be abandoned as issues will start to pile up." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982228)) "It's slop, and there's no telling if it will still be maintained a year from now." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981899))
- Export and codec problems (2 comments): "it changes the PSD on save so much that an export render differs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982008)) "Can't encode 265 or AV1 though." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982066))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Apple Creator Studio](https://hackerapproved.com/p/apple-creator-studio.md): 29 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust", https://hackerapproved.com/p/adobe-creative-suite-cleanroom-port-to-rust/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).