WordCraft is a clean-room, open-source reimplementation of Microsoft Word written entirely in Rust that recreates the familiar Word workflow - ribbon UI, live styles gallery, tables, track changes, references and mail merge - while running natively on macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and in the browser via WebAssembly. It targets high fidelity with .docx read/write compatibility (opens in Word), supports a broad set of import/export formats (.odt, .rtf, .html, .md, .tex, .txt) and produces real selectable PDF output. The project emphasizes speed and native behavior: paragraph layout is cached for low-latency typing even in large documents, rendering happens on demand via a single Rust codebase using native egui on the GPU, and every UI convention and shortcut is implemented to match user expectations.
Functionally it delivers a comprehensive word processor: full text formatting, paragraph and style management, multilevel lists, advanced tables, page layout features (margins, headers/footers, hyphenation, line numbers), images and wrapped objects, TOCs/footnotes/citations, review tools (spelling, grammar, comments, track changes), mail merge and export tools. Architecturally it’s agent-friendly - 422 commands with CLI, JSON control channel and MCP server for programmatic control - licensed MIT or Apache-2.0, clean-room built with original or openly licensed assets, and provides quick start commands, a roadmap, parity assessment and community resources on GitHub and Discord.
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