| ▲ | pjmlp 3 hours ago |
| The language is called Go, golang is the website domain. |
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| ▲ | vascocosta 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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". |
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| ▲ | 9rx 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > 1. avoids confusion, no matter how unlikely it is in a context like HN 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? | | |
| ▲ | Melonai 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | At least with regards your second point, Google, DuckDuckGo, all other search engines. I always have to add "golang" because otherwise it just fucks up. I have to say that googling for "C", is a lot more dire, and because the LLVM people called their frontend "clang" I can't even use that, otherwise only clang stuff pops up. And even then, once I did manage to convince the search engine that I'm looking for the programming language, it still decides to just give me results for C++. It sucks. | | |
| ▲ | win311fwg 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > because the LLVM people called their frontend "clang" I can't even use 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. | | |
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| ▲ | ternaryoperator 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The use of "golang" for posts and comments is desirable IMHO because it greatly facilitates search, especially on sites such as HN that cover many languages. |
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| ▲ | 9rx 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Searching "site:news.ycombinator.com go" on Google didn't yield any results that weren't about the Go programming language even after going several pages deep. What kind of search problems are you having, exactly? And why is it unique to Go? I am sure there are comments on HN about metal oxidization, making sharp changes in direction, Norse gods, and letters of the alphabet. | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I suggest admins to rename the post title as " I write games in Clang (yes Clang)", given how hard it is to find C content. It might end up finding stuff about a compiler though. |
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