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Oh no, here we go again. So you don't like Go (no idea what this "golang" thing is everybody keeps talking about)? That's cool! You don't have to write yet another blog post saying that you really, really don't like it, with more strawman arguments and again quoting that quoted-to-death quote by Rob Pike about Go being designed for stupid developers, we got you the first time!

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I don't have a horse in this race, but as for "Go" vs. "golang" - I imagine people use "golang" as it's a bit more clear that you're talking about a specific thing (the programming language), as opposed to a fairly common English word (and a board game, and probably some other uses).

From https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_golang:

Is the language called Go or Golang? The language is called Go. The "golang" moniker arose because the web site was originally golang.org. (There was no .dev domain then.) Many use the golang name, though, and it is handy as a label. For instance, the Twitter tag for the language is "#golang". The language's name is just plain Go, regardless.

BTW The official github organization is literally "golang"

https://github.com/golang

Yeah, "golang" is the standin for when "go" is already taken (https://github.com/go). But still, the official name is "Go", and there's no good reason to not use it in the title of a blog post (other than SEO I guess)...

My site has its own search engine (just sqlite full-text search, nothing fancy) and searching for "go" is entirely unhelpful. So yes, external and internal SEO.

> no idea what this "golang" thing is everybody keeps talking about

The Go FAQ can help you understand where this is coming from: https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_golang

I'm surprised this isn't mentioned, but "golang" is much easier as a keyword to search for then 'go' as well.

I'd just to point out that I think fanboys are not that useful and you have the right to don't read the article as much as he has the right to write it..

I dunno, aren't you just as guilty of not moving on? If Go is garbage, you defending it isn't going to suddenly correct that. Also, it's called golang because that's what a lot of people call it (i.e. https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/)

Then you could also say "He's called a [insert ethnic epithet here] because that's what a lot of people call him" - but I hope we can all agree that would be a bad idea?

I am not sure what you mean by your completely disconnected analogy.

Easier to search for things online with a unique moniker. I would use "golang" whenever I would talk about the language to IT people who may not know about it.

> rustlang

Rust is a chemical reaction, not a programming language. HTH. GLHF.

Blog post is just one part, This person is whining about critical feedback received on HN at Twitter. Screenshotting users and comments for Twitter likes. For someone who doesn't like Go , they surely obsesses a lot about it.

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