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Sometimes you want to show your consumer what technologies you used in the product you're selling. The gopher looks very bad on "made with" slides. In a present
by sacado2 8y ago
Sometimes you want to show your consumer what technologies you used in the product you're selling. The gopher looks very bad on "made with" slides. In a presentation, I had a slide with tons of logos presenting the technologies we used. In the middle of the javascript, html, css and maybe ruby (don't remember), the gopher looked childish and immature. Sometimes it can be ok (if your customer is a young, cool, laid-back start-upper), but sometimes it is not (think gray-haired guy from an industrial company).
- goatlover 8y agoDoes the customer really care that a product was made with Go instead of C++, Rust, etc? Ruby has a gem and Rust has a rusted R. I guess those are less childish? Java with it's mocha brand is supposed to be professional looking? The customer sees a cup of coffee and thinks to themselves, "Wow, this product is definitely made with professional grade industry standards!".
- adamweston 8y agoUnfortunately people do care that much about branding. On the bright side, the gopher isn't going away, it's only being relegated to a mascot role, like the Rust Crab.
- sacado2 8y agoThe problem is, it looks like a child did it. Not a criticism per se, I personally like its design, but to outsiders (guys with suits), it looks somewhat amateur / immature (and these guys tend to care a lot about those things). And, yes, sometimes these people want to know what they paid for, whether they are customers (in b2b) or they are giving money (like a government agency or something), and a neat slide with lots of logos and oral explanations is often the way to go (pun unintended). Python's logo is an animal, too, but it looks clean and low-profile.