The Rusticon

This is currently a work in progress - feel free to alter or add definitions as necessary.

term	definition
bikeshed	A highly important discussion about some non-fundamental part of the language (such as syntax or identifier names).
borrowed pointer
bors	A Python script that checks for reviewed pull requests and runs the test on it, merging it if they pass.
box
closure	Refers both to the type (&fn, ~fn) and the literal notation: ∣args∣ expression (where expression can be a block, ie ∣x∣ { println(x.to_str()); 5}). It is said to "close over" its environment; it can "capture" values from surrounding code. (Note: This is using a non-pipe unicode character because github doesn't like using that character in tables.)
crate
FFI	See foreign function interface.
foreign function interface	Calling code written in another language. Rust has a native C FFI, using extern "C" fn.
heap allocation	A dynamic allocation performed either by ~ or @, which call to malloc in the default runtime (which is a statically-linked jemalloc)
inline
lifetime
macro
managed pointer
monomorphise	The act of generating specialized versions of generic constructs at compile time to improve run time performance. See Whole-Program Compilation in MLton and Niko Matsakis's answer on Stackoverflow.
owned pointer
raw pointer
rustdoc	The Rust documentation generator.
rustc	The Rust source code compiler.
rusti	The Rust interactive environment.
rustpkg	The official package manager for Rust programs and libraries.
sigil	A character placed in front of a type, identifier or literal. In the context of Rust, this usually refers to the pointer symbols: &, ~, @, and *.
stack allocation
syntax extension
task	Rust's fundamental unit of computation. Similar to a thread but far more lightweight.
trait	Rust's approach to ad-hoc polymorphism, and used for generics and dynamic dispatch. Also known as type classes.