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		Cerium 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zinc, a systems programming language prototype It's called zinc because you are avoiding rust?

vram22 1 day ago [–]

I wonder if there are PLs named after metals, or even other elements of the periodic table, other than Zinc, Carbon and Mercury? :)

SkiFire13 1 day ago | [–]

Not a metal/element but there's Ruby

fuzztester 15 hours ago | | [–]

Good one, close.

I used Ruby in the Web 2 days in a few dotcom projects.

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