Easily fixed:
- When talking about Go the language: type it as 'GOpher'
- When talking about the protocol Gopher: type it as 'Gopher'.
If even just the HN community adopted this, there'd be less confusion.
- When talking about Go the language: type it as 'GOpher'
- When talking about the protocol Gopher: type it as 'Gopher'.
If even just the HN community adopted this, there'd be less confusion.
"In March 2017 Veronica indexed 133 gopher servers"
https://blog.golang.org/8years
"Go has been embraced by developers all over the world with approximately one million users worldwide. In the freshly published 2017 Octoverse by GitHub, Go has become the #9 most popular language, surpassing C. Go is the fastest growing language on GitHub in 2017 in the top 10 with 52% growth over the previous year. In growth, Go swapped places with Javascript, which fell to the second spot with 44%."
How about I invent something and call it COBOL, is that OK?
If we expect our industry to ever grow up, we need to respect its history, and not keep overwriting it.