rune

An embeddable dynamic programming language for Rust.

Contributing

If you want to help out, there's a number of optimization tasks available in Future Optimizations.

Create an issue about the optimization you want to work on and communicate that you are working on it.

Features of Rune

• Clean Rust FFI.
• Stack-based C FFI like with Lua (TBD).
• Stack frames, allowing for isolation across function calls.
• Template string (Book 📖).
• Try operator (Book 📖).
• Pattern matching (Book 📖).
• Structs and enums with associated data and functions (Book 📖).
• Asynchronous programming (Book 📖).
• Generators (Book 📖).

Rune Scripts

You can run Rune programs with the bundled CLI:

cargo run -- scripts/hello_world.rn

If you want to see detailed diagnostics of your program while it's running, you can use:

cargo run -- scripts/hello_world.rn --dump-unit --trace --dump-vm

See --help for more information.