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On 6/14/25 7:27 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:30:34 +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:
> 
>> You meaybe thinking of Redox OS https://www.redox-os.org/
> 
> That name is obviously meant to be a kind of word play on “Rust”. As I
> recall from my high-school chemistry lessons, a “redox reaction” is one
> where one reactant is “reduced” (gains electrons) while the other is
> “oxidized” (loses them). This may or may not involve actual oxygen atoms
> (which are notorious eaters of electrons), but the concept has been
> generalized from that.
> 
> The slight irony is that the name “Rust” does not come from the well-known
> redox reaction that iron undergoes with water in the presence of oxygen
> (catalyzed by a little bit of polar contaminants such as common salt), but
> from the name of a kind of fungus.

   "Fungus" ??? TOO CRUEL !

   Rust is perfectly OK ... but I don't see much advantage
   over plain 'C'. Lots of 'new langs' are like that, just
   'C' with nastier syntax.