Rune 1.1 Released: Free for Personal Use with Python and Emacs Support
Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free
I am thrilled to announce Rune 1.1, which is now free for personal use and offers a perpetual commercial license. This release introduces first-class Python support, a dedicated Emacs editor, and a powerful on-disk workspace symbol index. We have also significantly improved SSH workspaces, added verified package signing, and enabled direct extension installation from Git repositories to streamline your development workflow.
The previous modeless editor combined conventional shortcuts with a subset of Emacs bindings. This could surprise users of conventional editors while still providing an incomplete Emacs experience.
- bryanlarsen
Quite impressed with a sales page basically telling me to stick with Emacs for now: https://rune.build/coming-from/emacs
- 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!
- fishgoesblub
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.
- efficax
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?
- fooqux
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.