> it's right there in the name: software should be allowed to become old and "collect rust" Of course, names or intentions of things don’t really determine the

> it's right there in the name: software should be allowed to become old and "collect rust" Of course, names or intentions of things don’t really determine their quality, or we’d all be running our software on the alpha processor, namely the DEC Alpha. My pedantic comment is worth about as much, but might be interesting to some: Rust isn’t named after iron oxide, it’s named after fungus[0][1][2]. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16494822/why-is-it-called-rust#16503989 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16494822/why-is-it-calle... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus) [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archaeology_the_definitive_endall_source/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archa...