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Who cares that some unknown language was called "Go!" ? If I looked hard enough, I could find an obscure language named Rust that was invented before Mozilla's

• zelphirkalt 4y ago
  Hm. As stated like this, it is just an assumption, that you could. I am not convinced. > Who cares that some unknown language was called "Go!"? If we translate this to other areas of life, then this becomes quite problematic. Next time some bigger group of people can name themselves like a smaller group of people and say "Who cares?". Well, the minority cares. But it is indeed a typical move of a tech giant to appropriate names for their own products, with or without intention to create associations in people's heads. On one hand one must draw the line somewhere, where one deems things too insignificant to veto a naming, but on the other hand it is never nice to take another ones name and overshadow it. Aside from that, "Go" really is a silly name, as shown when people write "golang" all the time, to avoid confusion. "Go" is difficult to search for. One would have thought, that a company like Google knows that kinda stuff, but apparently not.