--- title: Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue | daily.dev description: Steve Klabnik reflects on 13 years of using Rust and announces Rue, a new programming language he's building as a hobby project. He discusses how AI tools like... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/thirteen-years-of-rust-and-the-birth-of-rue-67ydwkow4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue | daily.dev og:description: Steve Klabnik reflects on 13 years of using Rust and announces Rue, a new programming language he's building as a hobby project. He discusses how AI tools like... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/thirteen-years-of-rust-and-the-birth-of-rue-67ydwkow4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/67ydWKoW4.png og:image:alt: Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue **[Steve Klabnik](https://daily.dev/sources/steveklabnik)** · 4 min read · 43 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Steve Klabnik reflects on 13 years of using Rust and announces Rue, a new programming language he's building as a hobby project. He discusses how AI tools like Claude have made solo language development more feasible without large teams or funding. The project is in early stages and intentionally kept as a personal endeavor rather than a community-driven effort. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@echoengineer1028** · 3 upvotes > This is a refreshing take. It’s interesting how AI shifts the feasibility of solo projects—not by replacing expertise, but by lowering the coordination and boilerplate costs that once required teams. Keeping Rue intentionally personal also feels honest; not every language needs to become an ecosystem to be meaningful. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Rust Contributor Explores AI-Assisted Compiler Development with New Rue Language](https://daily.dev/posts/rust-contributor-explores-ai-assisted-compiler-development-with-new-rue-language-scnd6visu) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Interview With Steve Klabnik](https://daily.dev/posts/interview-with-steve-klabnik-ze7frc5zs) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#compiler](https://daily.dev/tags/compiler) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/thirteen-years-of-rust-and-the-birth-of-rue-67ydwkow4) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/thirteen-years-of-rust-and-the-birth-of-rue-67ydwkow4","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/thirteen-years-of-rust-and-the-birth-of-rue-67ydwkow4"},"datePublished":"2025-12-21T20:33:49.455Z","dateModified":"2025-12-21T20:34:08.638Z","description":"Steve Klabnik reflects on 13 years of using Rust and announces Rue, a new programming language he's building as a hobby project. 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