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Golang is often preferred as it's much easier to search for and no need to disambiguate between other things called Go (Chinese board game, 1999 film).
by rpsw 13y ago
Golang is often preferred as it's much easier to search for and no need to disambiguate between other things called Go (Chinese board game, 1999 film).
- limmeau 13y agoI wish they had renamed it to Issue9 when they still had the chance.
- _ak 13y agoIssue 9 from Google Labs.
- laumars 13y agoAs well as the other similarly named programming language: Go! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language) ) To be honest, I hate the name "Go" even for vocally conversing. It's such a common term that the context is completely lost with verbal communication so I'm often having to explain things in a long winded way. eg "It's programmed in Google's language named 'Go'". Google probably should have just released it as "Golang" from the start to save a lot of trouble and confusion.
- raverbashing 13y agoYes Google should have known better what's a good "googable" name. Golang is a good compromise
- ralph 13y agoBut then the debugger can't be called ogle.
- darkgray 13y agoI always thought Goo could be a name that sticks.
- mseepgood 13y ago> As well as the other similarly named programming language: Go! This language doesn't even have a home page or a download page.