Comment by curlypaul924
5 years ago
How interesting. Doesn't the fungus get its name from the oxidized metal though and not the other way around? Mold the form and mold the fungus seem etymologically unrelated, however.
5 years ago
How interesting. Doesn't the fungus get its name from the oxidized metal though and not the other way around? Mold the form and mold the fungus seem etymologically unrelated, however.
> Doesn't the fungus get its name from the oxidized metal though and not the other way around?
Huh, apparently so! So Rust-the-language isn't necessarily named after oxidized metal, but it _is_ named after something that's named after oxidized metal.
And what's the relationship between the programming language and fungi ? is it a root growing invading the world concept ? is it a pun on 'fun'-'gi' ?
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archa... is the primary source here. Quotes:
> <graydon> fungi are amazingly robust
> <graydon> to start, they are distributed organisms. not single cellular, but also no single point of failure.
However, I will note that graydon uses words like "I think I" and "I remember kinda" and everyone says "yes this means this is 100% the source of the name" whereas I take it to be like, "this is one of many reasons that Rust is named Rust."
You also have to remember that Rust was a very different language in many senses back when Graydon was choosing the name, so allusions may not make sense now but may have then. Early Rust was much more erlang-like, which may make the above feel more relevant.