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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 de
by 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 agoRuby 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 agoThey'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.