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People will get confused when people Google it and find the poset game Nim[1]. Unless of course that's what they were going for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim

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If the programming language has any web presence at all, it will quickly bury the game. Also, it's not like people are going to overhear the word "nim" completely out of context and then google it. If you know it's a programming language, it will be easy to find resources.

Given the long mathematical heritage of the game (check out its Google presence: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nim), I'm not sure that I believe that it'll be so easily upset. On the other hand, the first page of results for https://www.google.com/search?q=Ruby (except the image results) are all about the language, not the gem, so I could be wrong!

I guess Go is doing well enough sharing a name with an ancient board game, and the two languages are occasionally compared, so it's a bit fitting that way.

When googling for go language related things, you may have a hard time, unless you know to use golang instead of go depending on context.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

https://www.google.com/search?q=golang+strategy&oq=golang+st...

Actually it has never been a case for me. When searching for Go i have never had a problem finding whatever i was looking for.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=go

https://www.google.com/search?q=go

It's less of an issue now than it was a few years ago. But again context is key.

Try "go observer" vs "golang observer".

If your go app is having issues with a firewall you might search "go firewall" which seems less relevant than "golang firewall."

If you wanted a library that handles "rules" "golang rules library" provides better result than "go rules library."

If you know what you're looking for "go" is probably a sufficient search term. If you don't know what you're looking for (and you're not just using google as a bookmark site) "golang" seems to be a better search term.

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