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rune
Rune is a programming language developed to test ideas for improving security and efficiency. (by google)
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Hence, a higher number means a better rune alternative or higher similarity.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-12.
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Dnsmasq-Discuss: Security โ Important
Agreed, it made a lot more sense to write MaraDNS in C in 2001 though.
The main advantage of writing in C over Rust here in 2026 is that C has two different Lua interpreters, and there isnโt a port of Lua to Rust yet; [1] yes, there are ways to use the C version of Lua in Rust, but thatโs different.
If I were to write a new server today, I would write it in Go, then use GopherLua for the Lua engine:
https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua
Although, even here, the advantage of C is that I could increase performance by using LuaJIT:
https://luajit.org/luajit.html
[1] If I were to use Rust, I would consider using Rune as an embedded language as per https://rune-rs.github.io/
- 3 years of fulltime Rust game development, and why we're leaving Rust behind
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Steel โ An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust
A Lisp, a weird dialect of Lisp, is not better than Lua. Why use Rune [0]?!
[0]: https://rune-rs.github.io/
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Embeddable Scripting Language for Embedded Rust
This is what I based my comment on - https://github.com/rune-rs/rune/issues/444
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Late start today as well. I really thought today would be the day that I'd have to abandon my goal of no heap allocations. But, luckily I had an arena allocator available that I could fairly easily adapt to store data on the stack. And with some tweaks we have today's solution:
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thought you guys might like this monstrosity i created (that i actually use in a project)
I'd have given you bonus points for using a rust styled scripting language like rune but that's pretty neat still
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Visual scripting for Rust
As note about using rust syntax for scripting: https://rune-rs.github.io/
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Designing a Rust -> Rust plugin system
I know you said you donโt want to embed another language but IMO Rune is worth a consideration here. It can be a pretty thin abstraction over rust by passing native structs to scripts and calling methods on them. The syntax and semantics are very close to rust so it feels natural. https://github.com/rune-rs/rune
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rune-rs/rune is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of rune is Rust.
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