>E.g. why do we call Rust packages “crates”? This is off-topic, but I was curious enough to go looking. It seems there has been a thing called a "crate" ever s

>E.g. why do we call Rust packages “crates”? This is off-topic, but I was curious enough to go looking. It seems there has been a thing called a "crate" ever since the first commit in Graydon's personal repo [1], though I'm not sure it had the same meaning as it does now. [1] https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/commit/b0fd440798ab3cfb05c60a1a1bd2894e1618479e#diff-dbf56c8072709f1dd318bf55b598e255R7 https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/commit/b0fd440798...