Computer Organization: Big News from the Open Source Community

【Who's Next 😂】The open source community has recently seen significant progress. Following the successful reverse-engineering of 7 professional Adobe creative applications using open source, Microsoft is now the target. The team has released alternatives for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, emphasizing that they completely avoided using Microsoft's original code. Instead, they built independent open source software from scratch that faithfully replicates the original functionalities. It fully supports Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, and can even run directly in the browser via WebAssembly technology, similar to Office 365. This open source ecosystem, named 'Crafting Apps,' has already garnered significant attention from the developer community for its reverse-engineering of Adobe software. Unexpectedly, the development team has released Office alternatives in a short period. The new project also adheres to the philosophy of thorough open source and independent reconstruction, with the entire core built using Rust code. The open source series currently includes three projects, corresponding to Microsoft Office's three main software: ◾GridCraft (Benchmarked against Microsoft Excel) An open source application designed for spreadsheet data processing, its interface structure is almost identical to Excel, offering familiar cell layouts, data entry, and calculation features.