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Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by b0rsuk on Monday October 30, 2017 @08:05AM (#15584387)
Is "Rust" a positive-sounding name in the first place ? It's old, decaying metal. It's like saying your favorite image editor is Gimp. It is a fine piece of software, but sounds unprofessional for native English speakers.
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Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by sempron64 on Monday October 30, 2017 @12:57PM (#15586670)
If someone forked GIMP, put in nicer UI styling, and gave it a more friendly name, I'm sure its adoption would be much higher...
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Re:Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity by LyndsySimon on Monday October 30, 2017 @09:43AM (#15584910)
That depends on what the "metal" is :)

If the "metal" is the existing ecosystem of languages, then the name would imply that it will slowly eat away and replace code that's been written in other languages.

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