Rue programming language
Shares rank 94 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
Experimental systems language aiming for memory safety without lifetime annotations; fans want to follow it. Caveat: critics see no clear use case yet.
Experimental systems language aiming for memory safety without lifetime annotations; fans want to follow it. Caveat: critics see no clear use case yet.
20 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 9
- approval share
- 55%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Promising project worth following
“sounds fascinating language to follow its development as well and good luck on this project”
Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go” “Seems like a great project let's see where it goes!”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go” “Nice, seems like a super cool project.”
Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Unclear use case so far
“I wish them the best, but until they have a better story here I'm not particularly interested.”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go” “If this language is supposed to be used for systems programming, doing a factorial isn't really a selling example of why Rue.”
Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go” “until they have a better story here I'm not particularly interested”
Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go” - Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go”
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All 21 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“But this absolutely works. Claude has written far more programs in my language than I have.”
“I wish them the best, but until they have a better story here I'm not particularly interested.”
“Not being able to store mutable ref in other type reduces expressiveness”
“Looks nice, but -> syntax always feels extremely off-putting.”
“until they have a better story here I'm not particularly interested”
“reviewing the specification it actually looks like something my brain doesn't have any qualms with”
“so unnecesary, just extra writing”
“If Rue can achieve memory safety without lifetime annotations everywhere, that's genuinely valuable.”
“others are framing this is as "write less code"”
“Perhaps it is not the best name for a programming language.”
“it's... an acquired taste”
“the implementation is 100% vibe coded even”
“sounds fascinating language to follow its development as well and good luck on this project”
“I doubt Rue will ever be good for it.”
“If this language is supposed to be used for systems programming, doing a factorial isn't really a selling example of why Rue.”
“I expect it's really going to hurt the language and/or make it all about useless posturing.”
“it's an instant nope for me”
“a language with nothing than a couple of promises”
“Nice, seems like a super cool project.”
“Seems like a great project let's see where it goes!”
“I see compile times as a feature - that's certainly nice to see.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.