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I know it's irrelevant, but I really can't get past the terrible name "Rust", meaning corrosion. Why not call it "Ruined", "Broken", "Stupid" or "Bug-ridden"?
by 6ren 14y ago
I know it's irrelevant, but I really can't get past the terrible name "Rust", meaning corrosion. Why not call it "Ruined", "Broken", "Stupid" or "Bug-ridden"? It's almost as bad as naming it for emasculated slaves.
- nsmartt 14y agoFrom what I hear, it's supposed to be a codename, but it's been suggested that the name is acceptable enough to keep by this point.
- saosebastiao 14y agoProgramming language names are not that important. For example, Lisp, aka speech impediment. Or C, aka two steps away from A. Or LaTeX, aka condom. Or Java, aka you need a lot of coffee to read code as verbose as this. Or Brainfuck...well, that one might be named appropriately.
- coldtea 14y agoWTF are you talking about? Rust is a very nice name. Short, nicely googlable in a programming context, and quite cool. Not to mention "Corrosion" is also nice. You seem to see it from the perspective of the corroded material, but try seeing it from the perspective of the corrosive agent. Then it's like naming a language "Acid" or "Explosion". Not to mention that "Fire" is also an example of corrosion (oxidation). Fire, Acid, ... Doesn't Rust sound cooler already in this company? Plus, Rust, the language, like corrosion, is "close to the metal" (pun intended).
- rvasco 14y agoYeah Rust is a really clever name imo
- pselbert 14y agoBrendan Eich says he has been making up for the naming of JavaScript with some more interesting names recently. Namely "Servo" and "Rust". It all had a Metropolitan Brewing (brewery in Chicago that always uses mechanical / industrial names) Company angle to it, which I dig.