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Seems like rust is this year's new hot language.

Rust is designed to be the language of the century. That's why it's named Rust.

That's not a great summary of the history of the name.

Here's a better one: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archa...

40 years at least, according to a core team member: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3AdN7U24iU

This year's hot new language of the century.

I didn't mean "no this is the one that's gonna stick", I meant "code written in this is explicitly designed to last a long time".

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