[owlglass]

From the GitHub repo:

* A community fork of a language named after a plant fungus. All of the memory-safe features you love, now with 100% less bureaucracy! *

I assumed with the 'oxide' and 'ferrous' references that Rust's etymology had to do with corrosion, and while that's part of the explanation, it's mostly about fungi [1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16494822/why-is-it-calle...

[adrianmonk]

I assumed it was a joke based on the phrase "close to the metal" (zero-cost abstractions allowing high-level features without sacrificing performance). Nothing is closer to metal than an oxidation layer.

[Sindisil]

This is similar to all the snake references around Python. That language being named after Monty Python's Flying Circus.

[Waterluvian]

Wow had no idea. My assumption was it was about building something so durable and stable that it’ll be around forever.

Which doesn’t make sense given oxidization slowly robs something of its durability. But Discord is named using a word that means “disagreement and lack of harmony” so I kind of look past weird branding in tech.