Fireship · 2026-10-12 · notable
Fireship — 'Every app on Earth is now open source... whether it likes it or not'
Fireship's 12 October 2026 video covers a developer who rewrote seven Adobe apps in Rust with help from Claude Opus 5.5 and released them as open source for free.
Fireship looks at what happens when one developer and a coding model can clone a whole commercial software suite.
What is it?
'Every app on Earth is now open source... whether it likes it or not' went up on Fireship on 12 October 2026. The description says 'a developer just rewrote seven Adobe apps in Rust and open-sourced them for free' and invites viewers to try them.
How does it work?
XDA Developers reports that a developer with about a decade of Rust experience built open-source versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign and Acrobat Pro, announcing the seven apps as 'created with the help of Opus 5.5'.
Why does it matter?
If a strong coding model lets one person rebuild large commercial apps, the moat around paid desktop software gets thinner. That is the claim in the video's title, and it is a live question for anyone who sells software.
Who is it for?
developers and software founders