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In case you referred to the chemical reaction, "Oxidation" is also the name of the project to integrate Rust in Firefox,[1] and in general is semifrequently use

In case you referred to the chemical reaction, "Oxidation" is also the name of the project to integrate Rust in Firefox,[1] and in general is semifrequently used to mean the process of rewriting legacy code bases in Rust and thus "oxidizing" them. [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation (Nb. originally Rust was named after the order of parasitic fungi Pucciniales.)

nayuki 3y ago
In turn, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus) > Rusts get their name because they are most commonly observed as deposits of powdery rust-coloured or brown spores on plant surfaces.