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Hurray the codebase is rusting e.g. becomes brittle. Whoever came up with that languages name didn't really think it through.
It's worse than that. Rust is named after a Fungal infection known for being unstoppable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus)
but... why?
Because unstoppable 🦀
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But I guess it was a joke here