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The name "Corrode" doesn't seem very positive given the purpose of this program...
by felixangell1024 10y ago
The name "Corrode" doesn't seem very positive given the purpose of this program...
- glandium 10y agoRust is a type of corrosion.
- felixangell1024 10y agoAh very true. I interpret it as (from Googles define) "destroy or weaken (something) gradually." i.e. destroy/weaken the C code into Rust... Maybe it's just me, though.
- microcolonel 10y agoThey probably should've used a more specific term; like "Oxidant".
- dmytrish 10y agoExactly, _Corrode_ makes C code _rusty_!
- adamnemecek 10y agoIronically though the name rust is from the species of fungi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus)
- fahrradflucht 10y agoI find the name creative, kind of funny and all in all very good.
- felixangell1024 10y agoI guess you could say its ironic in terms of how I think of it anyway.
- Bromskloss 10y ago> ironic I don't even know what is and what isn't a pun anymore.
- nathancahill 10y agoYeah, let's not tarnish this thread any further.
- favorited 10y agoTell us how you really FEel.
- gpm 10y agoIt also mirrors the name "oxidation" that Mozilla uses to talk about adding rust code to firefox.
- outworlder 10y agoOnly if you are talking about iron corrosion. If you own an aluminum Macbook, for instance, it was oxidized (or corroded) during manufacturing, on purpose. This protects the metal from further corrosion. You could say it's what this project does.
- therestisgone 10y agoCarbon doesn't corrode very well.
- SilasX 10y agoWell, it's just building off the same (negative) connotations of "Rust", which I think was itself a questionable name, trivial though it might seem. I've been looking at newer languages recently, and I see a lot of promise in Nim -- which renamed itself from Nimrod after users warned about what it connotes. Rust could take a cue.
- eridius 10y agoWell, Rust isn't actually named after iron oxide. It's actually named after the fungus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus)). Most people just don't know about the fungus.
- SilasX 10y agoWhen it comes to connotations, "what people know about" is more important than the intent.
- coldtea 10y agoWhen it comes to connotations, the one's associated with Rust are beyond negligible...
- SilasX 10y agoHow so? For me, "rust" conjures images of a rusty nail, rust getting in your tap water, a machine in disrepair from rust, and becoming "rusty" at some skill. And I don't think I'm alone.
- coldtea 10y agoAnd Python conjures images of dangerous snakes (and people getting killed by them), Go conjures images of that argument with my SO, when she told me "go!", C# conjures images of sharp objects like knives, and PHP conjures images of programming in PHP. It's just a name, nobody really cares about rusty nails and rust in tap water when discussing Rust the programming language. And by nobody I mean nobody in the statistical significant sense. It's really bikeshedding.