rune

An embeddable dynamic programming language for Rust.

Contributing

If you want to help out, there should be a number of optimization tasks available in Future Optimizations. Or have a look at [Open Issues].

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

Features of Rune

• Clean Rust Integration 💻.
• Memory safe through reference counting 📖.
• Template strings 📖.
• Try operators 📖.
• Pattern matching 📖.
• Structs and enums 📖 with associated data and functions.
• Dynamic vectors 📖, objects 📖, and tuples 📖 with built-in serde support 💻.
• First-class async support 📖.
• Generators 📖.
• Dynamic instance functions 📖.
• Stack isolation between function calls.
• Stack-based C FFI, like Lua's (TBD).

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.