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c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote at 03:03 this Sunday (GMT):
> 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.


Rust I personally dislike the syntax of, AND its development team is
apparently pretty controversial.
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