# Rue programming language

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Rue programming language and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Experimental systems language aiming for memory safety without lifetime annotations; fans want to follow it. Caveat: critics see no clear use case yet.

## Why people recommend it

- Promising project worth following (3 comments): "sounds fascinating language to follow its development as well and good luck on this project" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46353796)) "Seems like a great project let's see where it goes!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349381)) "Nice, seems like a super cool project." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351805))

## What people warn about

- Unclear use case so far (4 comments): "I wish them the best, but until they have a better story here I'm not particularly interested." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364002)) "If this language is supposed to be used for systems programming, doing a factorial isn't really a selling example of why Rue." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352962)) "until they have a better story here I'm not particularly interested" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359566))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Rust](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rust.md): 2039 recommend
- [Go](https://hackerapproved.com/p/go-programming-language.md): 1254 recommend
- [Python](https://hackerapproved.com/p/python.md): 1067 recommend
- [Zig](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zig.md): 743 recommend
- [TypeScript](https://hackerapproved.com/p/typescript.md): 574 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Rue programming language", https://hackerapproved.com/p/rue-programming-language/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).