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the patient revenge iron takes on a world that left it out in the rain
means the reddish-brown flaky coating that forms on iron and steel when they react with oxygen and moisture, slowly eating the metal away.
from From Old English 'rust,' tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root (shared with German 'Rost' and Dutch 'roest') and ultimately to an ancient Indo-European color-word for red — the same deep root that gives us 'ruddy' and 'red.' So the name is, fittingly, just the color the metal turns as it dies.
- chemistry
- iron plus oxygen plus water equals slow surrender
- it spreads
- flaking exposes fresh metal to keep corroding
- costs trillions
- corrosion drains roughly 3% of global GDP yearly
- never tires
- works silently around the clock, no oxygen breaks
- namesake
- a programming language built to outlast such decay