Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴Why do people insist of calling programming languages "-lang"? "Golang" (Go), "Dlang" (D), "Ziglang" (Zig), "Erlang" -- OK, I'll give them that one. But still...
Dan Poltawski@wwwicked to make them googleable?
@dan Maybe (although I would search for "D programming language" not "Dlang" for example, and I don't know how many people would default to the x-lang construction), but when they're speaking in a YouTube video though?
@wwwicked I know that i've tried searching for 'how to do x in go’ until I realised the more googalable term of 'how to do x in golang’ - thats the sort of thing I'm thinking of..
@dan But is that a self-fulfilling thing, where you can't search for "concurrency in Go" because everyone's titled their pages "concurrency in Golang" :D It doesn't overly bother me, but I must admit to some minor annoyance. The old golang.org domain didn't help that one though =)
@wwwicked I may be misremembering, but i'm sure that 'golang' came after 'go'
@dan You mean the language came after the game? I mean, I realise that, but it doesn't explain people saying "Ziglang" or "Odinlang". OK, maybe Odin. And Zig if we're talking all your base... But, but... it still annoys me! 😂
@dan https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_golang makes a fair point about the #golang hashtag, and that makes more sense to me
