PAPaulHoule·Sep 7, 2025Submission
Rue: A programming language that is a minimal subset of Rust
3 points · Open discussionsteveklabnik
rue
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rue
A programming language that is higher level than Rust but lower level than Go. Someday, anyways.
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A programming language that is higher level than Rust but lower level than Go. Someday, anyways.
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| Jun 9 | 2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Jun 16 | 2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 23 | 2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 30 | 2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7 | 2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 14 | 2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 21 | 2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 28 | 2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 4 | 2025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 11 | 2025-08-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 18 | 2025-08-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 25 | 2025-08-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 1 | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-08 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesA programming language that is a minimal subset of Rust
3 points · Open discussionLike three or four. very simple language: main function whos value is the error code, functions of one argument returning one value, only ints, basic control flow and math.
I just opened the repo, here's the commit that did what I'm talking about: https://github.com/steveklabnik/rue/commit/5742e7921f241368e...
Well, the second part anyway, with the grammar. It writing the lexer starts as https://github.com/steveklabnik/rue/commit/a9bce389ea358365f..., it was basically this program.
If I wrote down the prompts, I'd share them, but I didn't.
Please ignore the large amount of llm bullshit in here, since it was private while I did this, I wasn't really worried about how annoying and slightly wrong the README etc was. HEAD is better in that regard.
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