Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free (rune.build)

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!

Page crashes with “a problem repeatedly occurred on $page” on iOS Safari, just fyi

Quite impressed with a sales page basically telling me to stick with Emacs for now: https://rune.build/coming-from/emacs

Any connection to https://github.com/CeleritasCelery/rune ?

I have no idea what it is

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.

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?

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.

Are there any plan in forseeable future (10 years) to port Rune to other platforms (win, mobile/tablet, ..)?

As soon as it said "non-commercial" I noped.

That is so vague with some of what I do, that it isn't worth even looking further.

OMG the live region announcements are really annoying on the web page: "RUNE rune.buildmain+0-0248 lines2026-07-30 21:54:38 unstablebuild "

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

i was so confused at first, why did they name themselves the same as the rune scripting language? https://rune-rs.github.io/

Is this electron?

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?

I tried it and its definetely not mature enough for me. Too cumbersome to use. But the project speaks to me.

Sorry, I just don't understand the premise behind Rune. The whole neovim / emacs / blah blah cult is based around configuring the infinitely configurable ecosystem. It's not better, or more productive, it's a hobby. So if you try to package that you've missed the point.