AI-built Rue language pairs Rust memory safety with ease of use

""My hope is that it will fit into a sweet spot that's somewhere higher-level than Rust, but lower-level than Go," Klabnik said. "Not as hard to use as Rust, but also has good performance, fast compile times, and is easier to learn.""

""I'm much, much farther along than if I hand-wrote the code myself. I do read all of the code before it gets merged in, but Claude does all of the authoring," he said."

Steve Klabnik is building Rue, a new language implemented in Rust that aims to provide memory safety without relying on garbage collection. Rue targets an ergonomic position higher-level than Rust but lower-level than Go, prioritizing easier use, good performance, and fast compile times. The design accepts tradeoffs that make Rue less suited for many low-level projects where Rust excels, focusing instead on different project types. The implementation is written entirely in Rust and is in early development, with initial standard library support recently landed. Anthropic's Claude AI is being used to author much of the code, with Klabnik reviewing changes before merging, accelerating progress significantly.

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