Wu is a fast, native code editor written in Rust, with a clean, modern design and coding agents built in. The name comes from wu wei: effortless action. Wu is a fork of Zed but diverges heavily from it.
- ⚡ Native and fast. No Electron or webviews. Opens instantly and stays responsive on large views.
- 🍃 Lightweight. Wu's memory footprint is lower than VS Code and Zed. See benchmarks.
- 👾 Coding agents included. Built-in support for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.
- ✨ Beautiful by default. Clean, modern look with a delightful UX.
- 🤫 No account or telemetry. Nothing to sign in to. Wu never sends your usage data anywhere.
On Linux, you can also install with curl -fsSL https://wu.dstrml.org/install.sh | sh.
See INSTALL.md for more.
See docs.
Wu builds the same way Zed does. See the Zed development docs.
Wu is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later with Apache-2.0 components where marked. See LICENSE-GPL and LICENSE-APACHE.
Wu is a derivative work of Zed and shares the same licenses.
Thanks to the Zed team for building an excellent editor and releasing it as open source. Wu would not exist without their work.