A new systems programming language called 'Rue' is in development, aiming for memory safety without garbage collection, offering a user-friendly experience compared to languages like Rust. The project's creator discusses the language's design philosophy, balancing performance with ease of use and exploring a less-explored area of memory management.
Naming a new programming language " Rue " sounds like an acknowledgment of doubt about the project's prospects, if you take" Rue " to mean"regret."came about as a name because I did Ruby, and then Rust . so I needed to start with Ru.
Naming a new programming language"Rue" sounds like an acknowledgment of doubt about the project's prospects, if you take"Rue" to mean"regret."came about as a name because I did Ruby, and then Rust... so I needed to start with Ru. And a 'rue' can be, as you said, 'to rue the day' or similar, but it is alsolast month,"is a systems programming language that aims to provide memory safety without garbage collection, while offering higher-level ergonomics than languages like Rust and Zig." Garbage collection in programming refers to automatic memory management, which can take several forms. It serves to reduce memory errors arising from explicit memory deallocation – a goal trumpeted by. One of Rust's selling points is that it can provide memory safety guarantees using the subset of the language, though with a learning curve that's generally considered steeper than modern languages like Go or Swift. Klabnik said he has spent many years talking to people about Rust and its complexity is a common concern. The reason offered in the Rust community, he said, was that languages used for low-level tasks like operating systems have a variety of constraints that make things complicated. He explained,"So I thought it would be neat to explore that design space: what if Rust wasn't trying to compete with C and C++ for the highest performance possible? What if we were willing to make things a little bit, but not too much, less performant, in exchange for ease of use? What if we made the language itself a bit larger, that is, with fewer features in purely library code, as a means of making the overall package simpler? "There have been a ton of languages with garbage collectors, but less without, especially in the last 20 years. So I think the 'memory safe, yet no tracing ' space is just under-explored generally. There are a ton of small languages exploring this space, and I want to give my own take on it."Yet Klabnik's take is not entirely his own. Rue, written largely in Rust, relies substantially on Anthropic's Claude AI model, which owes its capabilities to all the developers whose code has informed the model's training data."I had started Rue earlier this year," Klabnik explains."But I was not as good with LLMs as I am now, and I made some mistakes. I started over. I've gotten further in the two weeks I've been working on it this time than the month or two I spent last time. That's partially due to better models, but also just largely due to my own skill in understanding how to use LLMs effectively." He said that for small projects that do something semi-custom, models like Claude can be useful even for developers without much experience. With larger projects, knowledge of software engineering matters more, he said. "So, I think like anything, you can start small and move up," he explained."Small, self-contained projects? Sure, even a non-programmer can make use of these tools. But they are tools, and tools require expertise. "Even knowing existing programming isn't enough to truly get a lot of good use of LLMs, they're tools in their own right. Vim isn't easy to use, and knowing programming doesn't help you use it, but it's a useful tool anyway. But it's its own skill. Software development techniques like testing are distinct skills from writing code to get something done. I see LLMs the same way. They have a low skill ceiling to get started, but a pretty high one to use most effectively.""What I can say for sure is that I've gotten much farther on this project than I would have otherwise without it," he said."Rue's about 70k lines of Rust code two weeks into its life. Now, lines of code isn't everything, of course, I'm actually working on a substantial refactor of something right now, even. But just to give you an idea of the rough size. I know that if I had worked on this by hand, I'd be much less farther along, and probably at a lower level of quality." Claude hasn't yet offered an assessment of Rue code quality. But the AI model has emitted tokens that read like an argument for its own capabilities.of a language — the compiler itself — can come together remarkably quickly when you have the right leverage," Claude responded in answer to Klabnik's presumed prompt, using."We don't have an LSP yet. We don't have a package manager. But we have a real compiler that produces real executables, with enough infrastructure to keep building on. "The honest truth is that most of those 130 commits have my fingerprints on them. Steve directed, reviewed, and made the hard design decisions. I wrote most of the code. That's an unusual collaboration, and I'm not sure what to make of it yet." Klabnik isn't any more certain about the project's prospects."If nobody ever uses it, that's fine by me, and if in ten years it's a major programming language, well that's probably fine too," he said."I'm not trying to force anything, I'm just working on something I enjoy and finding out where that takes me."EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes themExclusive
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