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> TL;DR: Rust is named after a fungus that is robust, distributed, and parallel. And, Graydon is a biology nerd. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/

• archerx 3y ago
  Wow, that’s even worse.
• eviks 3y ago
  it's not that singular, from that exchange it's named after a bunch of things, including the metallic part (and fungus), but it's not certain