The longtime Rust developer is now building his own Rust-based language called Rue. This language is easier to use than Rust or Zig and aims to provide memory safety without garbage collection. Claude's AI technology is utilized in the development of Rue.
Written entirely in Rust, the language is in its early stages of development and has just begun initial standard library support, developer Steve Kravnik said in an email response to questions from InfoWorld on January 7, 2025. But development is moving quickly, Klubnik said. “My hope is that it falls into a sweet spot that's higher than Rust but lower than Go,” Klabnik said. “It's not as hard to use as Rust, but it's also performant, has fast compilation times, and is easy to learn.” So while the language is probably not suitable for many of the low-level projects that Rust is good at, it makes different tradeoffs and will be useful for different types of projects, he added.
Anthropic's Claude AI technology powers Rue's development, and Claude helps Klabnik work faster. “It's much, much better than if I had handwritten the code myself. I read all the code before merging it, but Claude does all the authoring,” he said.
