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I do find the name extremely unfortunate. It's impossible to search for, as "go" is an extremely common word (bad for search engines) and substring (bad for ctr
by coldpie 11y ago
I do find the name extremely unfortunate. It's impossible to search for, as "go" is an extremely common word (bad for search engines) and substring (bad for ctrl-F find). I tried searching for shared web hosts that provide Go support and just gave up. Kind of hilarious to see a first-party Google language be impossible to search for.
- V-2 11y agoA great many programming languages aren't particularly searchable, especially when searching engines weren't up to todays standards yet. Things have improved, but I remember the dark days when looking for anything C# would shower you with C-related links.
- sesutton 11y agoUsing "golang" instead of "Go" nearly always gives the correct results in my experience.
- coldpie 11y agoThat's true-ish, although it seems unlikely that most marketing departments who would be putting together a web server page would use "golang" over "Go". Edit: This would be solved if the language was called "golang," which is precisely the original poster's point.
- rdtsc 11y agoAnd the was another existing programming language called "Go" and Google being well Google just stomped on that and moved on calling theirs the same thing. It is a nice benefit of being a billion dollar company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_%28programming_language%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_%28programming_language%29