He created a programming language called Go, worked on it for 10 years, published papers and books on the subject Yes, he worked hard. That is unfortunately co

He created a programming language called Go, worked on it for 10 years, published papers and books on the subject Yes, he worked hard. That is unfortunately completely irrelevant. His language is not widely used and was largely a one-man operation. So it didn't get much notice. a team from Google creates a programming language, calls it Go, and essentially tells him to go fuck himself when he points it out. Changing the name costs time/money and Google was already using Go in a bunch of places internally when they released it. They decided it wasn't worth it. And 'go' is one of the most common words in the English language. The guy didn't trademark it. Tough luck. Oh then I guess that makes it ok. Well that's not what I meant but it was probably a dick move for me to imply he had other motives when complaining about Go. Go! didn't even have a Wikipedia page until after Google released Go. This was not related to my original criticism of they OPs hyperbole, just an added point. Google's naming collision is the best thing that could have happened to Go!