I wanted an editor that felt like VS Code but ran like a native app. Nothing out there did both, so I forked Zed to build Wu.
It opens instantly, stays fast on big files, and uses less memory than VS Code or Zed. It has built in support for Claude and Codex with OpenCode support incoming. There's no account and no telemetry so your usage data is never sent anywhere.
I'd love to hear your feedback about what's missing or what could improve. Thanks for checking it out!
About Wu on Product Hunt
“The fast, native code editor in Rust”
Wu launched on Product Hunt on October 2nd, 2026 and earned 108 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #13 on the daily leaderboard. Wu is a fast, native code editor written in Rust, with a clean, modern design and coding agents built in.
On the analytics side, Wu competes within Productivity, Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.3M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Wu performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Wu?
Wu was hunted by Faisal Arshed. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Faisal Arshed
Hey everyone 👋
I wanted an editor that felt like VS Code but ran like a native app. Nothing out there did both, so I forked Zed to build Wu.
It opens instantly, stays fast on big files, and uses less memory than VS Code or Zed. It has built in support for Claude and Codex with OpenCode support incoming. There's no account and no telemetry so your usage data is never sent anywhere.
I'd love to hear your feedback about what's missing or what could improve. Thanks for checking it out!