Developer behind free Adobe clones ships open-source Word, Excel, PowerPoint
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Brandon Thomas released WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft — Rust rewrites built with Anthropic's Claude — covering 88% of Word's ribbon features and 513 of Excel's 523 worksheet functions. He rates them only 50-60% ready for real work; MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses allow commercial reuse.
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