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i would argue that for most people here Go = GoLang i had never heard of the go game, before the ai go thing
by systems 11y ago
i would argue that for most people here Go = GoLang
i had never heard of the go game, before the ai go thing
- dyarosla 11y agoI don't know what the basis for your argument would be. Go the game and GoLang are both fairly talked about topics in Computer Science, most programmers do not program in GoLang (according to Github), and the AI match was a big deal for Computer Science in general. I would not be so quick to say that for MOST people here Go = GoLang, and agree with the parent comment.
- V-2 11y agoJust because most programmers don't actually program in Go themselves, it doesn't mean they don't know what it is. I haven't written a single line in Go, and yet it's immediately obvious to me what the title refererred to.
- dyarosla 11y agoYou have multiple people here telling you that their first reaction was not Go as in Lang. The obviousness to you and others does not prove the title is unambiguous to most. Here, we're trying to propose a solution that aims to eliminates ambiguity for the majority.
- V-2 11y agoI believe we are still in majority. Nothing has proven otherwise
- dyarosla 11y agoThe majority in what I said is = [people who treat Go as GoLang first AND Go as the game Go first] = the set of all people reading hacker news minus those who don't know either Go. Writing GoLang removes ambiguity for this majority. My first comment on this subthread has shown that neither you nor any other poster has proven that Go = Go first for most. Nothing you or any other parent comment including my own has proven either of Go = GoLang first OR Go = Go the game first for the majority of people.
- V-2 11y agoIt depends on the context, too. If I read a headline saying something like "Go is awesome for your brain", I'd be 95% sure it refers to Go the board game. When the headline reads "Why everyone hates Go", I'm pretty sure it can't be about the game. I don't think I'm being an exceptional individual - humans in general are very good at taking hints from context.