New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why was the “Rust” programming language named like that?

Ask HN: Why was the “Rust” programming language named like that?
5 by zepearl | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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://ift.tt/uoKWTc7. ...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://ift.tt/f4W3wRr Is it really like that? Named after this fungus https://ift.tt/WgzQq9d ? 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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