""Rust as a name evokes a few things. One of them is decay, entropy. A negative connotation. Another is the type of fungus, which is a positive one. Rue 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 also a kind of flower. I liked the symmetry with a negative and positive connotation. It's also really short, which is nice.""
""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 US cyber authorities. 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.""
Rue is a systems programming language that aims to provide memory safety without garbage collection while offering higher-level ergonomics than Rust and Zig. The name plays on both regret and a flower, preserving the 'Ru' symmetry from Ruby and Rust and balancing negative and positive connotations. Garbage collection is described as automatic memory management intended to reduce errors from explicit deallocation. Rust delivers memory safety without garbage collection but has a steeper learning curve than some modern languages. Rue explores design trade-offs that prioritize ergonomics over competing for the absolute highest performance.
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