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"Go" is a terrible name, by the way. Google's own programming language is by far the worst language to search on Google.

by fiatjaf 11y ago

acomjean 11y ago
>Google's own programming language is by far the worst language to search on Google. I always found this somewhat ironic. It seems that when a language is mistakenly given a unsearchable name (go & rust I'm looking at you) then searching with lang after works better (golang). They should have just called it golang and been done with it.
- mindcrime 11y ago
  They should have just called it golang and been done with it. Yep. For the life of me, I don't understand why they didn't either do that, or change the name to "Issue 9".
artursapek 11y ago
What's so hard about spelling out "golang"? http://golang.org http://golang.org
smcl 11y ago
You're right and it is a teeny bit ironic that google's own programming language is not particularly google-able. However I find that "golang <stupid-go-question>" does the trick pretty well.
- fiatjaf 11y ago
  Yes, but it hides results where the author has not used the word "golang".
shawnps 11y ago
I don't understand why people find it so hard to search for Go-related things, and would love to see some example bad searches. Here are some that do work: "string formatting go" "regex go" "convert string to int go" "web server go" "json go" "smtp client go" "http request go" Edit: oh, and can't forget "learn go" :)
- mikeash 11y ago
  Regarding "learn go," the top hit is indeed for the language, but at least for me almost all the other hits are for the board game. If one is dissatisfied with the official tutorial and looking for a different one, this could be troublesome.
  - shawnps 11y ago
    How about: "learn to program go" "learn to write go code" "first go program" "go hello world"
actsasbuffoon 11y ago
The "R" programming language might actually be worse. You might be tempted to stick "lang" on the end of it for clarification, but "rlang" is one letter off from "Erlang".
- christopheraden 11y ago
  On twitter, the common way to refer to R is rstats, which seems to work okay. See: https://twitter.com/hashtag/rstats https://twitter.com/hashtag/rstats

"Go" is a terrible name, by the way. Google's own programming language is by far the worst language to search on Google.

by fiatjaf 11y ago

"Go" is a terrible name, by the way. Google's own programming language is by far the worst language to search on Google.

acomjean 11y ago

>Google's own programming language is by far the worst language to search on Google. I always found this somewhat ironic. It seems that when a language is mistakenly given a unsearchable name (go & rust I'm looking at you) then searching with lang after works better (golang). They should have just called it golang and been done with it.

mindcrime 11y ago
They should have just called it golang and been done with it. Yep. For the life of me, I don't understand why they didn't either do that, or change the name to "Issue 9".

artursapek 11y ago

What's so hard about spelling out "golang"? http://golang.org http://golang.org

smcl 11y ago

You're right and it is a teeny bit ironic that google's own programming language is not particularly google-able. However I find that "golang <stupid-go-question>" does the trick pretty well.

fiatjaf 11y ago
Yes, but it hides results where the author has not used the word "golang".

shawnps 11y ago

I don't understand why people find it so hard to search for Go-related things, and would love to see some example bad searches. Here are some that do work: "string formatting go" "regex go" "convert string to int go" "web server go" "json go" "smtp client go" "http request go" Edit: oh, and can't forget "learn go" :)

mikeash 11y ago
Regarding "learn go," the top hit is indeed for the language, but at least for me almost all the other hits are for the board game. If one is dissatisfied with the official tutorial and looking for a different one, this could be troublesome.
- shawnps 11y ago
  How about: "learn to program go" "learn to write go code" "first go program" "go hello world"

actsasbuffoon 11y ago

The "R" programming language might actually be worse. You might be tempted to stick "lang" on the end of it for clarification, but "rlang" is one letter off from "Erlang".

christopheraden 11y ago
On twitter, the common way to refer to R is rstats, which seems to work okay. See: https://twitter.com/hashtag/rstats https://twitter.com/hashtag/rstats