> <graydon> > A little. Also big metallic things. And rusts and smuts, fungi. And it's a > <graydon> > nice substring of "robust".

> <graydon> IOW I don't have a really good explanation. it seemed like a good name. (also a substring of "trust", "frustrating", "rustic" and ... "thrust"?)

> <graydon> but then everyone thinks it's a pun on "chrome" so maybe we should stick with that

And given that now all the lore around it is about oxidation, I guess that's what stuck?

These old IRC dumps make me nostalgic instantaneously. There was a time not that long ago when we were still mostly fine with plain text for complex communications.

Like on this very website? :)

> I think I named it after fungi. rusts are amazing creatures.

Sure, there’s room for doubt, but not that much room.