Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Rust en · PROPN · etymology 1
Etymology
* 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.
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) A surname.
(countable, uncountable) A township in Montmorency County, Michigan, United States.
(countable, uncountable) A municipality in Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
(countable, uncountable) A small city in Burgenland, Austria.
Graydon Hoare, who initiated the language, has stated that it was possibly named after rust fungi and may be related to robust.
Meanings
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, page xxvi: