From the first Google result: "Graydon Hoare named the language after the rust fungus because it is robust, distributed, and parallel. He also liked the play o

From the first Google result: "Graydon Hoare named the language after the rust fungus because it is robust, distributed, and parallel. He also liked the play on the words from words such as robust, trust, frustrating, rustic, and thrust." https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archaeology_the_definitive_endall_source/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archa...