It should have been called "issue 9", which would have been a great name, expandable to "Issue 9 from Google Labs", very unique, nicely abbreviated to i9 for co

It should have been called "issue 9", which would have been a great name, expandable to "Issue 9 from Google Labs", very unique, nicely abbreviated to i9 for compiler and filename extension. I was there, along with many others, and I'll never forget that this language has a dumb name and it could have had a much better name: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9#issuecomment-66047467 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9#issuecomment-66047467