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  • Are there any plan in forseeable future (10 years) to port Rune to other platforms (win, mobile/tablet, ..)?
    by be5invis
  • No plans yet but if there’s enough demand we’ll port it to Windows.
    by ernestrc
  • OMG the live region announcements are really annoying on the web page: "RUNE rune.buildmain+0-0248 lines2026-07-30 21:54:38 unstablebuild "
    by devinprater
  • Anyone know of something like spacemacs which does the chording well? I've gotten used to it but it's starting to feel like it's not being updated, but I have all the muscle memory
    by loremm
  • Might want to think about installation. Suspicious of black box shell installations like that, and I'm on a laptop with restrictions. Looks like installation failed trying to write to places it shouldn't, but it's just pulling a dmg to copy on MacOS?

    EDIT: also not helping trust that it's not letting me quit?

    by ubercore
  • also curious as to why libresolv.so.2 is packaged in the Linux tarball
    by dminvs
  • I’ll look into these. We do some special handling of cmd+q so resources are released gracefully. I’m guessing you didn’t select a preset yet. Is that accurate?
    by ernestrc
  • I have no idea what it is
    by facepalmz
  • Same. Is it completely new editor with "emacs mode"? an actual emacs configuration. Who knows? Why should I care if the author didn't care to explain it?
    by mpawelski
  • i was so confused at first, why did they name themselves the same as the rune scripting language? https://rune-rs.github.io/
    by mercnz
  • I didn't know about rune, the programming language tbh. I guess we'll have to support it next
    by ernestrc
  • Any connection to https://github.com/CeleritasCelery/rune ?
    by cobolexpert
  • No connection. Naming things, sigh. It’s hard to find an unused name these days.
    by ernestrc
  • pricing page does not at all make clear what isn't included in the free version. you have to pay a monthly subscription for "language support"? does that mean it doesn't "support" languages in the free version? and what does "language support" mean?
    by efficax
  • Fair. I’ll change the wording so it’s obvious. To answer your question, there’s no difference other than the licensing terms allowing you to use it for commercial work.
    by ernestrc
  • I may check this out as I'm between editors currently. Liked zed for a bit, until a blog post showed me how they were installing npm and who knows what else on my PC without me knowing. Used Code for a bit after until suddenly they started requiring AI dependencies just to run the IDE.

    So hey, why not try something new.

    by fooqux
  • There's a zed minus the iffy bits fork called gram. Haven't used it though, I'm still stuck in Emacs trying to figure out how to get out.
    by 3836293648
  • I'm not seeing any mention of this being FOSS, is this closed-sourced? If so, that should be mentioned in every single comparison page between editors.

    edit: It is mentioned in the Neovim, and Emacs pages. Not the VSCode, or Zed pages.

    by fishgoesblub
  • You’re right about this. I’ll add it to those pages as well.

    edit: done

    by ernestrc
  • Author here. We pushed 1.1 today. It was scheduled for release two weeks ago, but it was quite hard to balance adding so many new features with the influx of bug reports that followed our launch a month ago. Obviously, adding Python is a big one, but I'm most excited about the new symbol index, which reduces 10-second workspace-wide queries to under 100 ms. The agent also uses this index, so the benefits compound over long agentic sessions as well. FWIW I'm not quite sure about the black-and-white dimming feature. If it's not useful, we might remove it in a future release so please let us know!
    by ernestrc
  • Is there a short video walkthrough for newcomers?
    by esafak
  • Quite impressed with a sales page basically telling me to stick with Emacs for now: https://rune.build/coming-from/emacs
    by bryanlarsen
  • You spelled Neovim wrong :-)
    by warpspin
  • I had to chuckle at this pro

    > Built-in Emacs editor

    The built in editor is a one of my least favorite parts of Emacs. I'm in it for the customizability.

    by wmedrano
  • > Org mode, Magit, TRAMP, or another deep Emacs-native package is your center of gravity

    This is me.

    > rewriting the editor live in Elisp is the whole point for you

    Funnily enough, this is not me. I just grab Doom Emacs and do very minor adjustments. I just really like all the packages and the ecosystem.

    by OhSoHumble
  • Lots of IDEs claim to offer Vim/Emacs emulation. Vim users seem often quite happy with the vim emulation they get (I'm only an occasional Vim user so don't have an opinion).

    The issue with emulating Emacs is that the editor key bindings are not the feature. The feature of Emacs is basically an IDE totally tuned to how you want it, plus the fact that then you apply the same ecosystem to a great number of text-adjacent applications - Org, E-mail, code, markdown, etc.

    Someone saying to me "hey, you can copy with M-w!" just really doesn't appeal.

    Vim seems more about an out-of-the-box "language" for typing, so I can see how you can emulate this more sanely.

    by rich_sasha