A former longtime contributor to the event of Rust now’s constructing a Rust-based language of his personal, referred to as Rue, which is meant to supply reminiscence security with out rubbish assortment whereas being simpler to make use of than Rust and Zig. Claude AI expertise is being leveraged for growing Rue.
Written totally in Rust, the language is in its early stage of improvement, with preliminary help for the usual library having simply landed, stated developer Steve Klabnik, in an emailed response to questions from InfoWorld on January 7, 2025. However improvement is progressing rapidly, Klabnik stated. “My hope is that it’ll match right into a candy spot that’s someplace higher-level than Rust, however lower-level than Go,” Klabnik stated. “Not as arduous to make use of as Rust, but additionally has good efficiency, quick compile occasions, and is simpler to be taught.” Thus, the language in all probability is not going to be good for lots of low-level initiatives that Rust is nice at, however will make completely different tradeoffs and assist with completely different sorts of initiatives, he added.
Anthropic’s Claude AI expertise is being leveraged within the improvement of Rue, with Claude serving to Klabnik get work performed quicker. “I’m a lot, a lot farther alongside than if I hand-wrote the code myself. I do learn the entire code earlier than it will get merged in, however Claude does the entire authoring,” he stated.
