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I am the author and I am really regret about this title. I think a better title should be "How to Use AVX512 in Golang via the C Compiler" :O

viraptor 4y ago
The graph at the end is not readable on the dark theme background. The labels are almost the same colour.
fulafel 4y ago
Another suggestion for the title: Go, not Golang.
- jjgreen 4y ago
  If faced with a co-worker who uses 'Golang', try pronouncing it 'Gol-ang' at regular intervals, liable to annoy them sufficiently to persuade them to desist ...
  - Kon-Peki 4y ago
    They’ll more likely ask if your code is still compiling, since you have so much free time.
    - jjgreen 4y ago
      For that sort of problem I'd generally use C, so laugh in their face :-)
- jrockway 4y ago
  This is a hill I am also willing to die on. Last time this annoyed me, I did a thorough look at the Go source code to figure out how accurate calling the language "Go" is. Basically, aside from the mailing lists and bug tracker URLs, "golang" only appears in one place; the ppc64 port contributed by IBM. Everywhere else in the code, it refers to itself as "Go".
  - seanw444 4y ago
    "Go" matches to many things unrelated to the programming language. Golang is more likely to match specifically the programming language.
    - alyandon 4y ago
      Similar to how many people back in the day used "csharp" instead of C# so search engines could actually find things.
      - colejohnson66 4y ago
        It didn’t help that search engines would “helpfully” ignore the sharp symbol (octothorp) and show results for just “c”
  - stonogo 4y ago
    Is discarding the primary communications channels for the project a valid decision? In addition, the main website of the project was "golang.org" for over a decade. That domain still redirects to the current homepage at go.dev.
    - jrockway 4y ago
      Ruby is at ruby-lang.org but I've never heard anyone call it Rubylang. You can't always get the domain name (or Google Group) you want.
      - stonogo 4y ago
        They're out there: https://github.com/topics/rubylang https://github.com/topics/rubylang I get that these people are not in your circle or whatever, but the term 'golang' appears nine times on Go's own case studies mood board: https://go.dev/solutions/#case-studies https://go.dev/solutions/#case-studies Personally I suspect people more readily adopt 'golang' because all the mailing lists used it as the prefix, the domain was golang (as opposed to go-lang), the official subreddit is /r/golang, and the developers have such a habit of prefixing things with 'go' (as in GOPATH, goroutines, etc). I used to believe it was because there was another programming language with the same name, but I never did find examples of its use in the wild, so I'm no longer sure that affected anything.

viraptor 4y ago

The graph at the end is not readable on the dark theme background. The labels are almost the same colour.

fulafel 4y ago

Another suggestion for the title: Go, not Golang.

jjgreen 4y ago
If faced with a co-worker who uses 'Golang', try pronouncing it 'Gol-ang' at regular intervals, liable to annoy them sufficiently to persuade them to desist ...
- Kon-Peki 4y ago
  They’ll more likely ask if your code is still compiling, since you have so much free time.
  - jjgreen 4y ago
    For that sort of problem I'd generally use C, so laugh in their face :-)
jrockway 4y ago
This is a hill I am also willing to die on. Last time this annoyed me, I did a thorough look at the Go source code to figure out how accurate calling the language "Go" is. Basically, aside from the mailing lists and bug tracker URLs, "golang" only appears in one place; the ppc64 port contributed by IBM. Everywhere else in the code, it refers to itself as "Go".
- seanw444 4y ago
  "Go" matches to many things unrelated to the programming language. Golang is more likely to match specifically the programming language.
  - alyandon 4y ago
    Similar to how many people back in the day used "csharp" instead of C# so search engines could actually find things.
    - colejohnson66 4y ago
      It didn’t help that search engines would “helpfully” ignore the sharp symbol (octothorp) and show results for just “c”
- stonogo 4y ago
  Is discarding the primary communications channels for the project a valid decision? In addition, the main website of the project was "golang.org" for over a decade. That domain still redirects to the current homepage at go.dev.
  - jrockway 4y ago
    Ruby is at ruby-lang.org but I've never heard anyone call it Rubylang. You can't always get the domain name (or Google Group) you want.
    - stonogo 4y ago
      They're out there: https://github.com/topics/rubylang https://github.com/topics/rubylang I get that these people are not in your circle or whatever, but the term 'golang' appears nine times on Go's own case studies mood board: https://go.dev/solutions/#case-studies https://go.dev/solutions/#case-studies Personally I suspect people more readily adopt 'golang' because all the mailing lists used it as the prefix, the domain was golang (as opposed to go-lang), the official subreddit is /r/golang, and the developers have such a habit of prefixing things with 'go' (as in GOPATH, goroutines, etc). I used to believe it was because there was another programming language with the same name, but I never did find examples of its use in the wild, so I'm no longer sure that affected anything.