Rust.
A surname.
Meaning & usage
A surname.
A township in Montmorency County, Michigan, United States.
A municipality in Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
A small city in Burgenland, Austria.
Where this word comes from
* 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.
A multiparadigm programming language focused on safety, especially safe concurrency.
Where this word comes from
Graydon Hoare, who initiated the language, has stated that it was possibly named after rust fungi and may be related to robust.
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