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Best fact: Rust users are apparently called Rustaceans. I did not know this, and have never seen this wonderful term before.
by DiabloD3 9y ago
Best fact: Rust users are apparently called Rustaceans. I did not know this, and have never seen this wonderful term before.
- oconnor663 9y agoAlso the language was named after a fungus :-D
- code_duck 9y agoRust?
- Someone 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus)
- code_duck 9y agoI assumed it was named after the more well-known phenomenon of iron oxidation.
- steveklabnik 9y agoThere's no single reason for the name; the original author said he used to make up a different reason every time he was asked.
- marcosdumay 9y agoThe fungus was named after the iron oxidation (they look alike).
- mi_lk 9y agoWhat’s wonderful about Rustaceans, is it a play on any reference?
- Arnavion 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean http://www.rustacean.net/ http://www.rustacean.net/
- adamnemecek 9y agoi've also seen rustafarians
- grayrest 9y agoThere's been a number of competing names (e.g. rustler) but rustacean won out because it has the advantage of being ideologically neutral and lacking other connotations.
- Waterluvian 9y agoI love my Python but "Pythonista" makes me think I'm selling beverages with funny names for their sizes. I love the demonym for Rust!
- kome 9y ago> I love my Python but "Pythonista" makes me think I'm selling beverages with funny names for their sizes. and probably, you are ;)
- Waterluvian 9y agoOuch that's a low blow ;)
- code_duck 9y agoPythonista makes me think of a leftist guerilla in a jungle with a beret and a machine gun.
- currymj 9y agoThis is fairly accurate bc they have a Chairman-for-life, and a schism between two groups, one of which denounces the other as revisionist.
- Waterluvian 9y agoHoly cow that is way too funny.
- nerpderp83 9y agoPython 7 is one true ISO standard Python.
- rhn_mk1 9y ago"Pythonista" wins hands-down over "Rustacean" outside of English-speaking groups. How do I even properly pronounce it? "Rah-stah-kyan", "Rah-stah-see-an", "Rah-stah-seen"? Complete non-starter if you can't talk about it. I'll keep my "Pythonista" business cards - this rolls off the tongue easily and ignites conversations with non-techies.
- nickpsecurity 9y agoPeople on Lobste.rs are often addressed as Crustaceans and Rust folks as Rustaceans. I always remember both when I hear one.
- davidad_ 9y agoAs a bonus, .rs is the filename extension for Rust source (as well as the TLD of Lobste.rs)
- systems 9y agoAda users are called ... Ada users are never called :/
- reificator 9y agoPlease please please can we stop with the Rustacean/Gopher/etc crap? You don't need a cutesy label to identify that you use a tool. I enjoy Doctor Who (though it's been getting worse for the last 5 or so years) but I do NOT want to be called a Whovian. What's the first image that pops into your head when I say "Trekkie"? It's probably not someone with good health and hygiene, is it?
- staticelf 9y agoPeople like to label shit and themselves. No reason to fight it.
- dg_10 9y agoSure there is a reason: it stops me from using Rust and Go. I don't want to be part of a "movement".
- reificator 9y agoI can think of a few reasons to fight indoctrination, but you do you.
- Sean1708 9y agoIs it really indoctrination? Why?
- brango 9y agoYou could call yourself a Whoover.
- ghthor 9y agoCheck your hangups at the door man. I love being a gopher and a rustacean. I like being cute and having a cute name for myself and fellow community members. It's attitudes like this that created the massive gender divide in CS and it needs to end.
- reificator 9y ago