rhun 0.17.9: your code, your agents, one small editor

My favourite milestone this week: my son made rhun his default editor on Omarchy. Seeing someone choose it for everyday use felt pretty great 🙂

And 0.17.9 is now out!

If you’re new here, rhun is a small, fast code editor written in assembly. Code, a terminal, Git diffs and coding-agent sessions, all in one window.

The recent 0.17.8 update brought Grok Build sessions alongside Claude Code and Codex, file type icons, and separate light/dark themes that switch with your system. On Omarchy, rhun can follow your desktop theme.

0.17.9 makes everyday editing smoother:

• Better live updates. Open files follow changes through symlinks, including targets outside your project and folders that disappear and come back.

• Search beyond English. Case-insensitive search now handles text like été → Été.

• Quick edits stay simple. Open a file directly and get the file, with the explorer and agents panel tucked away.

• Read-only files get a choice. Rhun asks before overwriting them.

Free, MIT licensed, no telemetry. Linux, Windows and Apple silicon Macs.

Try rhun · Release notes

Try it on your next coding-agent task. Where does it get in your way? That’s what I want to fix next.