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Little bit of a nit on the title if the author is reading this. Go is called Go, not Golang. https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_golang https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_g

Little bit of a nit on the title if the author is reading this. Go is called Go, not Golang. https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_golang https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_golang

nequo 4y ago
To me, "Golang" is a good compromise to make material about it searchable. For example, Lean is notoriously hard to find stuff about. Try entering "lean" into HN's search engine: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=lean https://hn.algolia.com/?q=lean I wish there was a convention to call it "Leanlang" or "leanprover" or something.
seneca 4y ago
It is extremely common to use "Golang" for Go to disambiguation the extremely common word. Not necessary on HN due to context, but it helps with SEO for blog posts.
jmainguy 4y ago
I always list it as Go/Golang on resume. Don't want people thinking I'm good at that board game
- richbell 4y ago
  From what I've heard about its difficulty, I'd be far more impressed if you were proficient at Go.
- WJW 4y ago
  When people write phrases like "Proficient in C, C++, Go and Malbolge" on their resume it's always a pain to figure out if they mean the programming language or the board game.
  - aflag 4y ago
    I once interviewed someone who was "proficient in dart, go and nim", but I was puzzled when they said they never wrote a computer program in their life.
    - WJW 4y ago
      TIL that "nim" is a game as well as a programming language.
    - erik_seaberg 4y ago
      We once had an interviewer poke a candidate about PostScript basics, and it quickly emerged that he had put his uses of “print to file” on his résumé and had no idea it was a Forth-like language.
sQEjOG4eEBcsVwU 4y ago
That's 100% on Google. If they (a freaking search company) didn't name it "go" (an extremely common english word which makes searching harder) then it could just be searched instead of using things like 'golang' (was/might still be common name for the language in repositories) that are clearly about the programming language. I have the same conceptual gripe with other ones that use fairly common single words like "rust", "swift", and "python", but I don't (yet) use the first two to know how big of an issue it is, and I can usually use "py" instead to exclude any chance of snakes.
- ilyt 4y ago
  that "tradition" goes all the way to C sadly. But hey at least cmdline is short...
teddyh 4y ago
How about we call it “The Google Language”?
- kaba0 4y ago
  Then it should be at least in the top 3 languages used by Google, shouldn’t it?
raverbashing 4y ago
Sounds like the exact attitude of Go developers, and the fact that they didn't think about searchability of their name says a lot about them (not like they work at a web search company and could have gotten that advice for free)
- ilyt 4y ago
  ... as opposed to Rust, Ruby, Python, C, D, Java, Elixir, Crystal ? Only popular ones that doesnt collide with words are PHP and JavaScript (because it is amalgamation of 2 words). But you won't complain about those now, will you ? About only semi-known ones that's not terrible to search is Haskell, and I guess Perl. And "letter with funny symbols after after" like C++/C#/F#
  - raverbashing 4y ago
    How many of those were created before search engines? It's not about colliding with words, it's that "Go" is a common word even other languages context But I'll give you a worse example than Go: R

Little bit of a nit on the title if the author is reading this. Go is called Go, not Golang. https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_golang https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_golang

nequo 4y ago

To me, "Golang" is a good compromise to make material about it searchable. For example, Lean is notoriously hard to find stuff about. Try entering "lean" into HN's search engine: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=lean https://hn.algolia.com/?q=lean I wish there was a convention to call it "Leanlang" or "leanprover" or something.

seneca 4y ago

It is extremely common to use "Golang" for Go to disambiguation the extremely common word. Not necessary on HN due to context, but it helps with SEO for blog posts.

jmainguy 4y ago

I always list it as Go/Golang on resume. Don't want people thinking I'm good at that board game

richbell 4y ago
From what I've heard about its difficulty, I'd be far more impressed if you were proficient at Go.
WJW 4y ago
When people write phrases like "Proficient in C, C++, Go and Malbolge" on their resume it's always a pain to figure out if they mean the programming language or the board game.
- aflag 4y ago
  I once interviewed someone who was "proficient in dart, go and nim", but I was puzzled when they said they never wrote a computer program in their life.
  - WJW 4y ago
    TIL that "nim" is a game as well as a programming language.
  - erik_seaberg 4y ago
    We once had an interviewer poke a candidate about PostScript basics, and it quickly emerged that he had put his uses of “print to file” on his résumé and had no idea it was a Forth-like language.

sQEjOG4eEBcsVwU 4y ago

That's 100% on Google. If they (a freaking search company) didn't name it "go" (an extremely common english word which makes searching harder) then it could just be searched instead of using things like 'golang' (was/might still be common name for the language in repositories) that are clearly about the programming language. I have the same conceptual gripe with other ones that use fairly common single words like "rust", "swift", and "python", but I don't (yet) use the first two to know how big of an issue it is, and I can usually use "py" instead to exclude any chance of snakes.

ilyt 4y ago
that "tradition" goes all the way to C sadly. But hey at least cmdline is short...

teddyh 4y ago

How about we call it “The Google Language”?

kaba0 4y ago
Then it should be at least in the top 3 languages used by Google, shouldn’t it?

raverbashing 4y ago

Sounds like the exact attitude of Go developers, and the fact that they didn't think about searchability of their name says a lot about them (not like they work at a web search company and could have gotten that advice for free)

ilyt 4y ago
... as opposed to Rust, Ruby, Python, C, D, Java, Elixir, Crystal ? Only popular ones that doesnt collide with words are PHP and JavaScript (because it is amalgamation of 2 words). But you won't complain about those now, will you ? About only semi-known ones that's not terrible to search is Haskell, and I guess Perl. And "letter with funny symbols after after" like C++/C#/F#
- raverbashing 4y ago
  How many of those were created before search engines? It's not about colliding with words, it's that "Go" is a common word even other languages context But I'll give you a worse example than Go: R