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Does anyone know the origin of the name? I did a quick look on wikipedia/github/project site but couldn't find anything conclusive.

• tim_chevalier 14y ago
  It's named after a fungus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28fungus%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28fungus%29
• eholk 14y ago
  I heard that Rust was meant to capture the spirit of the language. It was meant not to have a lot of knew ideas (although, as it turns out, language design always leads to new ideas). We have a sort of informal rule to not include research that's less than 10 years old, so we can build off of ideas that have had a chance to prove themselves. We're bending that rule a bit now, of course. The idea was that Rust would codify and provide language support for patterns that have worked well in making large software like Firefox fast and safe.
• Tuna-Fish 14y ago
  What eholk said. Also, it's partly for the Chrome/Rust divide of web browsers -- Rust is designed for the "below-the-bonnet", "plumbing" parts.
• AshleysBrain 14y ago
  TBH the name does make me think of rusty metal, as in dumped cars which are old and broken. Not sure that's the best mental image to create from the name of a new technology...