Rust
A surname.
Proper noun
- A surname.
- A township in Montmorency County, Michigan, United States.
- A municipality in Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- A small city in Burgenland, Austria.
Origin
* As an Alemannic German surname, from Rust * As a German surname, from Middle Low German ruste, from Old Saxon rasta, from Proto-West Germanic *rastu, from Proto-Germanic *rastō (“rest, pause”). * As an English and Scots surname, from Old English rust (“red, ruddy”), from Proto-Germanic *rustaz.
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Derived
Proper noun computer languages, computing
- A multiparadigm programming language focused on safety, especially safe concurrency.
- In Rust, the compiler plays a gatekeeper role by refusing to compile code with these elusive bugs, including concurrency bugs. - 2019, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, No Starch Press, →ISBN,...
Origin
Graydon Hoare, who initiated the language, has stated that it was possibly named after rust fungi and may be related to robust.