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This reminds me of when jQuery had a cartoon ninja on their homepage. Am I seriously looking at a page targeted at grown adults with a talking butterfly on it?
by colinramsay 11y ago
This reminds me of when jQuery had a cartoon ninja on their homepage. Am I seriously looking at a page targeted at grown adults with a talking butterfly on it?
- yunghiladoste 11y agoAlso, 'spunky little sister' doesn't mean the same thing in the UK as the US...
- colinramsay 11y agoYeah that did occur to me too, but either way "spunky" is never a word I want to see when I'm reading about a programming language.
- wingerlang 11y agoSimilar feelings towards splunk.com (crash reporting etc for mobile apps etc)
- Ulti 11y agoWell it can by context, but yeah sniggering does abound. At least she doesn't also have a "fanny pack" in the logo too.
- yitchelle 11y agoDid they really go through the exercise of trade marking the butterfly logo? They must be serious about this style of branding this version of Perl.
- JamesMcMinn 11y agoProbably not, you can legally stick a TM symbol on just about anything without submitting any paperwork. There's a joke that TM stands for Totally Meaningless because it offers zero protection.
- nocman 11y agoYeah, if memory serves you have to have a registered trademark (the kind that gives you the circled "R") to have any real protection. I think the plain TM might help you if it is published on paper (like in some well-known dated publication) and you are later fighting someone else for the registered trademark, but it might be only slightly better than no help whatsoever.
- motoboi 11y agoAnd yet, everybody loves Go.
- Zikes 11y agoIn my experience the Gopher logo is the second most criticized feature of the Go language, right after the lack of generics.
- autoreleasepool 11y ago1. Go-hate isn't hard to find, especially on HN. 2. Liking Go != liking the mascot 3. I think most would agree this is ridiculous: https://www.googlemerchandisestore.com/Google+Redesign/Brands/Go/Go+Gopher+Pink+Squishable.axd https://www.googlemerchandisestore.com/Google+Redesign/Brand...
- smonff 11y agoThis is also cute.
- autoreleasepool 11y agoThe plush toy is cute, but it's the fact that Google monetizes an open source programming language by selling plushies that I find ridiculous
- kbenson 11y agoWell, since the gopher images are Creative Commons Attributions 3.0 licensed[1], you could make your own and sell them or give them away if you wanted. I think the point is to promote the language, not to monetize it, and making it available through the Google merchandise store was probably easiest for those involved. 1: https://blog.golang.org/gopher https://blog.golang.org/gopher
- yokohummer7 11y agoI believe many others feel differently, but personally, I find the Go mascot a bit scary. Dunno the reason, but it's something that I can't easily get used when reading the articles on Go. FWIW, Russ Cox's GitHub icon[1] is similarly scary to me. [1] https://github.com/rsc https://github.com/rsc