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Why choose that name?

• TaKO8Ki 5y ago
  Hi. I'm the author of gobang. gobang means a Japanese game played on goban, a go board. The appearance of goban looks like table structure. And I live in Kyoto, Japan. In Kyoto city, streets are laid out on a grid (We call it “goban no me no youna (碁盤の目のような)”). They are why I named this project "gobang".
  • gjsman-1000 5y ago
    That’s really cool - the only problem is that I couldn’t tell my friends about it with them being able to take it seriously due to an unfortunate resemblance to some slang…
    • logicchains 5y ago
      And I couldn’t tell my Rustacean friends about it with them being able to take it seriously due to an unfortunate implication that it's written in Go...
  • jchw 5y ago
    I’m sure a lot of people had the same first thought I did (curiosity on why a Rust project starts with “Go”) but that is a pretty cool story behind the name, actually.
  • juliendonck 5y ago
    Oh that makes a lot of sense and is actually quite elegant. I just felt that it was either a “go” language thing or some lewd play on words that I thought was a bit tasteless. Thank you for the clarification :)