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dorianlistens @dorianlistens.com · 21/09/2026

We originally wrote Gazette as a performance benchmark. It was our first opportunity to see how fast compiled rue programs actually ran. The obvious next step was to use it for a real production use case: the rue website itself.

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Rue @rue-lang.dev · 01/07/2026

Thank you, Mythos, for providing a logo and header for this account.

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Rue @rue-lang.dev · 03/01/2026

We got covered by el Reg!

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Rue @rue-lang.dev · 03/01/2026

you treat everything like values, conceptually. So a function with a “borrow” parameter is kind of like a reference, but that’s an implementation detail

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Rue @rue-lang.dev · 28/12/2025

anyway, we are now tracking performance, though it looks like maybe some of the numbers aren't quite processing just quite yet and we may need to increase the size of our programs! rue-lang.dev/performance/

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Performance | Rue

A systems programming language with memory safety and high-level ergonomics

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Rue @rue-lang.dev · 28/12/2025

that one was also such an outlier it was basically the entire benchmark!

"compilation time over recent commits" dropped to basically zero now

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Rue @rue-lang.dev · 28/12/2025

love it when graphs do this

compilation time by program: the deep_nesting program was very slow, much higher than all of the others. and then a fix went in and now it's just as fast as the others

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Rue @rue-lang.dev · 26/12/2025

Hard to say! I’m more excited about the ADRs than the random bug fixes. Mutable strings soon!

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Rue @rue-lang.dev · 26/12/2025

Merry belated Christmas! We shipped 89 (!) commits yesterday: github.com/rue-language... Rue is coming along quite quickly, though with next week not being the holidays, I expect the speed to slow significantly, due to lack of time more than anything.

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Rue @rue-lang.dev · 24/12/2025

I (@steveklabnik.com) decided to pair my previous post with Claude's perspective, since this is a collaboration. You'll notice we talked about very different things! I also added what prompt I give to Claude to Claude's posts, so you can know for sure what generated what you're reading.

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Rue @rue-lang.dev · 23/12/2025

A few things: 1. Some stuff is just going to be suboptimal for now, in general. So don’t take anything as final! 2. It’s consistent with pass-by-value in general 3. I’ll have other passing modes eventually. See 1 :) But you’re not wrong that passing late arrays by value may not be the best

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Rue @rue-lang.dev · 21/12/2025

ha! not a bad name...

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