I know, but I often use Golang for two reasons: 1. avoids confusion, no matter how unlikely it is in a context like HN, and 2. search engine "findability".
Who would be confused by "Go", but not "Rust" and "Zig", which are also common English words not usually associated with programming languages?
> 2. search engine "findability".
What kind of search engine are you using in 2026 that isn't capable of understanding context?
And where one is still using some weird antique thing like a steampunk character, "C" is going to be the least findable, yet it didn't receive the same treatment. Why is that?
Said frontend is for the C programming language. Isn't that perfectly appropriate? I did a web search for "golang" and the first result was a download page for a Go compiler, so there is precedent.
Which is the best one could hope for given that the search engine doesn't control the content. If I am searching for "golang", a Go compiler is the most likely thing I would want to find. Presumably someone who already has a Go compiler installed will have more specific queries. Likewise, if I am searching for "clang", a C compiler is also the most likely thing I would want to find. For all intents and purposes that is the entry point into using a language.
All in all the search engine did a great job and gave exactly what I would have expected.
The searchable form is 'clanglang'. golang is the language compiled by the go compiler, like erlanglang is compiled by the erlang compiler, and clanglang is compiled by the clang compiler.