Ask HN: Why was the “Rust” programming language named like that?

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4 years ago

I indirectly started asking myself this question yesterday & today while struggling to query Google with e.g. "rust ammonia keep cleaned elements" ("Ammonia" is an HTML lib which I just started to use to transform relative links to absolute in an HTML doc, and to then extract them), getting back results like "Cleaning metals: basic guidelines", "10 household items to help clean rust at home", etc... => I'm in a Google-search-bubble, argh :P

This thread

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16494822/why-is-it-called-rust#:~:text=TL%3BDR%3A%20Rust%20is%20named,incorporating%20new%20technology%20into%20it.

...mentions...

> TL;DR: Rust is named after a fungus that is robust, distributed, and parallel.

> It is also a substring of "robust".

...referring to this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archaeology_the_definitive_endall_source/

Is it really like that? Named after this fungus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28fungus%29 ?

Asking just because I'm curious (and annoyed about the SEO, but that's as well the fault of the "ammonia" lib - if I'll ever create a Rust lib I'll then call it "get_rid_of", hehe).

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