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Graydon Hoare started what became Rust some time before 2009. Graydon came up with the name, inspired by the wheat mold, I believe. Rob Sayre and I got Rust sponsored as Graydon's day job by Mozilla in 2009, if memory serves.

I did a brief keynote at Mozilla's Whistler, BC all hands in 2010 proposing Servo, a new layout engine programmed in Rust. Servo was named by Dave Herman and me in honor of Tom Servo from MST3K. Rust was never "The Servo Project".

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Huh, I thought that both Servo and Rust were internally under the Servo umbrella for a while at least. I'm probably wrong then :)

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/761105563807731712

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2010/Schedule (find "Servo Project")

Graydon tweeted https://twitter.com/graydon_pub/status/761280391239958528 and it's all clear now: the Mozilla Summit session was called "Project Servo" but focused more on Rust, and Graydon's slides had that phrase as title:

http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf

(also picked up on my T2 robot from the future joke and reversed it, lol). But Rust was Rust, even then. Servo was the big news, I think Rust was known within Mozilla, a bit. So we used Servo in the session name and the rest is history.

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