The Rusticon

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

term	definition
bikeshed	An important discussion about some non-fundamental part of the language (such as syntax or the libraries). See also.
borrowed pointer
bors	The most prolific Rust contributor, our robotic overlord. A fairly small 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: `
crate
FFI	See foreign function interface.
foreign function interface
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. Perhaps best known from the MLton compiler: "Whole-Program Compilation in MLton" Also see Niko Matsakis's answer on Stackoverflow (the other answer is incorrect).
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.
trait	Sort of like an interface. Identical (or nearly identical) to Haskell's typeclasses. Used for generics and dynamic dispatch.