Rust

A surname.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A township in Montmorency County, Michigan, United States.
  3. A municipality in Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
  4. 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.

Forms

Rusts

Derived

Rustburg

Proper noun computer languages, computing

  1. 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.

Derived

Rustacean