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Interesting that the article brings up the original 1990s GopherCons (which were conferences for discussing the Gopher protocol). I'm mildly annoyed that the Go
by jhbadger 2y ago
Interesting that the article brings up the original 1990s GopherCons (which were conferences for discussing the Gopher protocol). I'm mildly annoyed that the Go programming community (which uses a gopher as a mascot) has reused the name for their conventions, but I guess it's been unused for a while.
- halestock 2y agoThey also took the name of a programming language that predated Google’s go as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)
- nateb2022 2y agoThe only notoriety this language has appears to be because of a naming clash, not for any legitimate technical merit.
- The_Colonel 2y agoGo's success is there only because of Google, not for any technical merit. Without Google, Go would be a forgotten niche language.
- nateb2022 2y agoI would suggest you take a look at https://go.dev/solutions/case-studies https://go.dev/solutions/case-studies Whether or not Google’s backing is part of the equation, Go’s success in the real world speaks for itself.
- jhbadger 2y agoNot to mention the Chinese board game weiqi (known in English as Go from the Japanese).
- anthk 2y agoGoogle's Go? Go itself predates Google, as it's founded upon plan9 C's compiler/linkers and then Alef/Limbo.