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Rust

The English word “Rust” has 1 meaning listed here.

proper noun

  1. A multiparadigm programming language focused on safety, especially safe concurrency.

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.

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