> Mostly, I am not really trying to compete with C/C++/Rust on speed, but I'm not going to add a GC either. So I'm somewhere in there.

Out of curiosity, how would you compare the goals of Rue with something like D[0] or one of the ML-based languages such as OCaml[1]?

EDIT:

This is a genuine language design question regarding an imperative/OOP or declarative/FP focus and is relevant to understanding the memory management philosophy expressed[2]:

  No garbage collector, no manual memory management. A work 
  in progress, though.

1 - https://ocaml.org/

2 - https://rue-lang.dev/