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Rustacean en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɹʌsˈteɪʃən/

Etymology

Blend of Rust + crustacean.

Meanings

1. (informal) A user of the Rust programming language.
   • You'll find that the Rust community loves to track the progress of a certain area using their “Are We X Yet” sites. This is a tradition from the Mozilla community, which many Rustaceans are also involved in. 2020, Shing Lyu, Practical Rust Projects, page 154:
   • We covered a whole lot of ground here in a subject that's probably the heaviest to grasp for a new Rustacean. 2019, Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta, Mastering Rust, page 210:
   • New Rustaceans commonly get stuck on strings for a combination of three reasons: […] 2019, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, page 137:

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