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Both Go from TW and the other Go! Programming language[0] is older than the Go language from Google.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)

The name change to "Go" happened after Go(lang)'s public release. Kind of a dumb move.

I'd used Go (continuous delivery) at University before I'd heard about Go(lang). Yes, whilst in the perfect world everything would be named a short, memorable, unqiue (,descriptive?) name - that's not the case. The two items in question are distinct enough that searching for golang vs go cd will produce relevant results.

How hilarious, considering Go-lang stole its name too.

Created an issue for that: https://github.com/gocd/gocd/issues/131

Let me throw my hat in the ring:

Title: Google Announces Go Programming Language

My snark: Poor choice for a name, it clashes with the board game Go.

I would have said: that is going to be hard to search for...at least dart is a bit more searchable.