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?

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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.

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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.

	▲	direwolf20 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What's the first result for "clang"? How about in private browsing?