Good question. I only found out about the GopherJS project about a year after it was created, so you'd have to ask Richard for how he picked its name. Looking

Good question. I only found out about the GopherJS project about a year after it was created, so you'd have to ask Richard for how he picked its name. Looking at the first commit from Aug 27, 2013 [0], it was originally inside a folder "golang2js". The first mention of the rename to "gopher.js" is on Sep 18, 2013 [1]. It was also a transpiler rather than compiler originally, before it picked up more steam and started doing really sophisticated stuff to support all of Go's concurrency features. Also, I've never heard of GoJS before today, so thanks for telling me about it! I guess I never tried to search for that term. [0] https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/commit/2f31215a988a07bca0c320a619f190c8decf5737 https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/commit/2f31215a988a07bc... [1] https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/commit/9223c657a92578ea29a3e1ed4fa3e2e8e7929e08 https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/commit/9223c657a92578ea...