Go programmers are called gophers. Nothing to do with the gopher protocol.
Most people in the community will happily refer to it as 'golang' when talking about the language, and in that context, it is obvious what a gopher is.
If you think this is annoying, well, there are a lot of things you can be annoyed about: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42480/words-with...
In this scenario, we should stop using 'run' to describe program execution and avoid the use of the word 'set' in computer science. Think that's likely to happen?
Society has realized that having unique names is required to find things and avoid confusion.