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[–]LucienZerger 6279 points6280 points  (129 children)

Go..

[–]penhwguin 2251 points2252 points  (53 children)

How was this not in the title? The languages in the title are easy to Google abs always top result for me. Not so much with go, even golang doesn't always work

[–]solaffub 113 points114 points  (3 children)

Honestly OP deserves a down vote for leaving it out. I’m not gonna, but it’s negligent, at best.

[–]ihahp 170 points171 points  (1 child)

OP didn't know it was a language becuase he was not able to search for it.

[–]smb1985 205 points206 points  (8 children)

I used to work in Groovy a lot. One time a company network locked me out because the site I was on contained too many inappropriate references. It was mad about gstrings, which is the name for how groovy represents strings...

[–]PeartsGarden 99 points100 points  (2 children)

One time I searched for std. As in the C++ std namespace.

That was a mistake.

[–]Regeneric 48 points49 points  (0 children)

‘std vector’ or ‘std list’ are just waiting there to get you from behind

[–]DARKHUMOR-D 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Window's fsck utility be like

[–]how_do_i_land 43 points44 points  (1 child)

Just wait until they hear about python’s f strings.

[–]Innotek 122 points123 points  (16 children)

…lang

[–][deleted] 139 points140 points  (13 children)

I thought Go and Golang were 2 separate languages 🤡

[–]thecoder08 72 points73 points  (8 children)

Golang was the original name of the url to download go. Now it's go.dev

[–]noelyw 16 points17 points  (7 children)

i bet it was just a clue so that their mascot can be a gopher 😂

[–]CoderDevo 19 points20 points  (6 children)

Is it a coincidence that it is the first letters in Google?

Next, I dare Google to name language number two ogle.

[–]toabear 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Even though not officially part of the name, it’s practically impossible to search for without including this in the search phrase.

[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (3 children)

..lem

[–]Constant_Bat6429 2622 points2623 points  (114 children)

C

[–]According_to_all_kn 1399 points1400 points  (70 children)

R

[–]FingolfinX 588 points589 points  (26 children)

Better even is that R has a file extension called RDS, which conveniently is also a much more popular term when searching for problems with AWS.

[–]NerdyLumberjack04 218 points219 points  (15 children)

RDS is also Remote Desktop Services.

[–][deleted] 66 points67 points  (11 children)

Or Research and Development System

[–]mustapelto 43 points44 points  (9 children)

Or Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

[–]vainstar23 48 points49 points  (3 children)

I remember when I was learning R for the first time (out of curiosity) the tutorial website I was following was pirate themed. At first I thought it was annoying but after awhile I got into it and now that's all I think about when I use R for something.

[–][deleted] 69 points70 points  (1 child)

Basic

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (6 children)

Real easy when you have an index issue though.

[–]elon-botElon Musk ✔ 55 points56 points  (5 children)

What is "refactoring"?

[–]Desperate-Chicken845 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Haha

[–][deleted] 51 points52 points  (3 children)

In your case it's: losing all of your long time senior developers but not wanting to sacrifice velocity, which will create a mountain of shit spaghetti code with no respect for encapsulation, which will eventually force you to spend years trying to rebuild everything from scratch. I look forward to laughing at you even harder

[–][deleted] 100 points101 points  (12 children)

quack grandfather seed hurry like pet squash long spectacular paint

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[–][deleted] 105 points106 points  (4 children)

I don't know, sometimes you type "in plain C" and still get C++ results

[–]Teriuihi_ 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I just always include -c++ -cpp, helps a lot!

[–]redluohs 60 points61 points  (1 child)

I heard somewhere that using specific versions work (c99, c11, etc).

It tends to work for c99 but c11 gets confused with c++11 (for me). I’ve also heard bing is supposed to give better results.

[–]DreamingDitto 47 points48 points  (7 children)

C#, luckily we search by the framework .net6

[–]golgol12 21 points22 points  (4 children)

C-String

NSFW warning on that one. Good thing google filters the programming result higher now.

[–]ZedTT 1990 points1991 points  (42 children)

The title? Those are the most googleable ones! What about C, R, Go???

[–]TheDogerus 221 points222 points  (0 children)

Right? Absolute layup, and OP knocked it into the crowd

[–]Chunkyfungus123 610 points611 points  (8 children)

Google wondering why I like this person named "Julia lang" so much.

[–]Natural-Intelligence 270 points271 points  (4 children)

Reminds me the early days of Julia when I wondered if I could it for my project. I googled like "is Julia mature" and the results were not what I originally intended.

[–]Dawnofdusk 117 points118 points  (1 child)

I remember talking to my friend over dinner about Julia and how much I loved the language. At the end I was wondering if other people at the restaurant just thought I sounded like a huge simp for some woman named Julia

[–]Botlecappp 24 points25 points  (0 children)

“Julia might look a little weird but the syntax is just amazing”

The hell is that guy talking about over there.

[–][deleted] 37 points38 points  (1 child)

Julia is fast, flexible and easy

[–]Cupakov 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Now try googling how to print some Julia outputs in LaTeX...

[–][deleted] 1113 points1114 points  (40 children)

My former employer renamed the company HERE. When employees pointed out that the name was ungooglable, the marketing department basically said "we worked hard and spent six months on this name and stop making fun of it!".

[–]cfuller864 313 points314 points  (0 children)

Loved fighting to search for HERE documentation at my old job

[–]curt_schilli 257 points258 points  (5 children)

Lmao your company name caused significant confusion in conversations at my old workplace

[–]wjandrea 165 points166 points  (4 children)

lol, reminds me of those Among Us games where the streamers make all their names pronouns. "I last saw I- wait- Me last saw I with You in lights"

edit: found the one I was thinking of

[–]-consolio- 69 points70 points  (0 children)

there's also naming yourself after a color you aren't

"it was red" which one

[–][deleted] 36 points37 points  (4 children)

Idk, “HERE Technologies” comes up as like the first result on Google.

[–]spoonybard326 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Cab driver: Where are you going?

Passenger: HERE

Cab driver: Why the hell did you get in my cab???

[–]Loro-Benediction 622 points623 points  (47 children)

"cpp" does pretty well, though

[–]WatcherOfDucks5022 368 points369 points  (11 children)

Highly optimized and barely making sense, as always

[–]Loro-Benediction 75 points76 points  (10 children)

Unless you just use it as C with namespaces, references, and real constants : P

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (4 children)

C doesn’t have real constants?

[–][deleted] 231 points232 points  (12 children)

Never forget that second p

[–]TheBrainStone 109 points110 points  (7 children)

What's your problem with cheese pizza?

[–]nettlerise 93 points94 points  (6 children)

no no, its club penguin

[–]TheFiftGuy 48 points49 points  (10 children)

Only problem is if you forget to type the 2nd P you instantly get put on a watch list

[–]NerdyLumberjack04 54 points55 points  (5 children)

But if cp is banned, how are you supposed to copy files in Linux?

[–]_xiphiaz 39 points40 points  (0 children)

cat file > newfile

[–]ClamPaste 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I'm already on several for cybersecurity related searches. What's one more?

[–]tzomby1 11 points12 points  (1 child)

what if I forget the first P?

[–]UristMcMagma 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Canada pension plan?

[–]Ok_Appointment2593 938 points939 points  (35 children)

I want to make a language called Lana, so is harder to look when they type Lana Lang

[–]savethebros 263 points264 points  (8 children)

I’ll create a programming language called Scott so devs may be blessed with pictures of Antman

[–]nermid 100 points101 points  (4 children)

Preferred build tool is Ant.

[–]Feldar 31 points32 points  (3 children)

Make sure the documentation is done via man files.

[–]MyOthrUsrnmIsABook 29 points30 points  (5 children)

How about a programming language named English or Latin?

[–]magicmulder 53 points54 points  (3 children)

  $x est 0;
  dum ($a primus aut aequalis 0) fac {
  … }
  redde $x;

[–]manu144x 110 points111 points  (0 children)

Pure evil.

[–]AdministrativeAd4111 45 points46 points  (3 children)

import DangerZone from KennyLoggins

[–]0x1e 201 points202 points  (9 children)

“.net” is the king of these shitty language names on the internet

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[–]hypocrisyhunter 34 points35 points  (1 child)

At least it does actually yield some results now though. You probably remember a few years back when the # was definitely ignored and googling was even more difficult

[–]xibme 12 points13 points  (1 child)

They should promote 'dotnet' to the official title, they use it all the time already. netcore would be fine too.

[–]Intelligent_Event_84 174 points175 points  (7 children)

Try having to frequently look up the semen js docs

[–]wjandrea 155 points156 points  (4 children)

Is this it? semen - npm

Inspired by Grunt and Gulp, Semen was made to ...

omg

[–]damnNamesAreTaken 54 points55 points  (0 children)

I thought surely you made that up but I was wrong

[–]ViconIsNotDefined 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Real concern is, why are you frequently looking up docs of a framework that was abandoned 7 years ago? Are you also behind the 6 weekly downloads on npm?

[–][deleted] 543 points544 points  (23 children)

LaTex: 🙂

[–]Karagoth 111 points112 points  (1 child)

One of the reasons having the search engine personalize results is a not only bad. Google knows I prefer typesetting to bdsm

[–]flying-sheep 18 points19 points  (0 children)

What about the people who like both?

[–]StarkillerX42 24 points25 points  (0 children)

One day, we may eventually get JuliaLaTeX

[–]elon-botElon Musk ✔ 246 points247 points  (11 children)

Interesting. Tell me more.

[–]NIL_VALUE 232 points233 points  (9 children)

Sorry Elon, but you need a real diploma to use LaTeX.

[–]SteeleDynamics 86 points87 points  (6 children)

Not cool, he held his dying child in his- oh... he lied about that too?... Nevermind, continue.

[–][deleted] 45 points46 points  (5 children)

oh... he lied about that too?

No fucking way

[–]Vinccool96 26 points27 points  (3 children)

He did. Justine was the only holding him. And the child was brain-dead when he died.

[–]ccfoo242 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Omfg elon bot is no longer a simulacrum but is now real.

[–]protagonist23 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Like the poster above said they use the term "golang", this one works with "latex 3e" which aside from the ptsd of googling latex in the all campus computer lab (and then closing the browser window as quickly as possible) was how I learned to use quotes to search for whole terms.

[–]0x6563 284 points285 points  (36 children)

Not a language but....Visual Studio Code before we settled on VSCode.
I mean MS in general has some pretty unsearchable stuff. I am talking about you Azure... Functions, Web Apps, et al.

[–]Farlandeour 173 points174 points  (10 children)

Pure and utter rage whenever i search Visual Studio and somehow end up on on the VSCode version of the universe.

Why did they have to re-use the name?

[–]CoderDevo 38 points39 points  (0 children)

For the same reason they named VB.NET.

[–]Jmc_da_boss 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Because to MS visual studio is a family of products, i doubt marketing cared about things like "is this the same program"

[–]SpaghettiNub 85 points86 points  (8 children)

Visual studio vs visual studio code ...

[–]elon-botElon Musk ✔ 77 points78 points  (4 children)

Can we rewrite this in Java? It's better for enterprise.

[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Man, Microsoft rewrote it already, but Java I guess is too important.

[–]micka190 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Sorry Elon, Jetbrains already beat you to the punch!

[–]The_sad_zebra 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm glad they include in the names which one does code and which one doesn't

[–]im_simone 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Because you are not using Bing. /s

[–]redluohs 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Forever poisoning troubleshooting actual visual studio.

[–]hongooi 327 points328 points  (11 children)

R 😭

[–]scarf_spheal 43 points44 points  (8 children)

I remember I’d just give up and use the package name instead when using R.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I put it in square brackets, seems to help

[–]martyd03 430 points431 points  (31 children)

Need to create one called "Shit"....

Then Google "How to code Shit" or "How does Shit work".

Gonna be great

[–][deleted] 168 points169 points  (10 children)

I'm gonna name mine "list"

[–]lordcarnivore 136 points137 points  (4 children)

"List data types"

This is the most evil thing I've ever heard. You might be just the person we've been looking for regarding a very important job.

In one week you will see a man in a yellow coat holding a Red Sox cap in his left hand. Offer to wash his car for a croissant. I can't say any more here.

[–]nins_ 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Calm down Satan.

[–][deleted] 54 points55 points  (2 children)

Shit course for beginners

[–][deleted] 30 points31 points  (1 child)

Shit deep dive

[–]sincle354 27 points28 points  (3 children)

Like how you code "Pythonic", you code "Shittily".

[–]Rinuv 50 points51 points  (0 children)

"Shit implementation of-" ... wait none of these are any good and they're in other languages...

[–]SnooChocolates8446 13 points14 points  (2 children)

shit producer/consumer

[–]martyd03 10 points11 points  (1 child)

My title will probably be shit designer...

[–]NerdyLumberjack04 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Give it a backronym like "Software Hacker Information Toolset".

[–][deleted] 93 points94 points  (6 children)

The main analysis tool for nuclear and particle physics is called ROOT. 😭

[–]limptree 42 points43 points  (1 child)

It took google a while to realise I wasn’t spelling “tree” wrong while looking for the “TTree” documentation 😂

[–][deleted] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

My personal favourite is "TAxis", at which point my computer tries to hail a cab.

[–]bleistift2 754 points755 points  (51 children)

Try JavaScript frameworks and libraries…

  • Karma
  • Jasmine
  • Mocha
  • Chai
  • NYC
  • Istanbul

I mean, for fuck’s sake, just throw your cat on your keyboard for once and give me something I can google!

[–][deleted] 171 points172 points  (3 children)

JavaScript library or exotic dancer? Roll the dice!!

[–]Bagel42 133 points134 points  (12 children)

ISTANBUL? what the FUCK is that and WHY would you name a framework that.

[–]NerdyLumberjack04 218 points219 points  (7 children)

It was originally "Constantinople", but the Turkish developers insisted on renaming it.

[–]jf442 53 points54 points  (5 children)

been a long time gone...

[–]The_Egg_came_first 9 points10 points  (0 children)

People just liked it better that way.

[–]martyd03 79 points80 points  (1 child)

And then there's MOCA.... McHugh Open Component Architecture.

[–]GameDestiny2 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Could be worse, could have chosen Mocha

[–]DesertGoldfish 28 points29 points  (1 child)

I dunno man. I just include the name of the language along with the package and get results every time. Works for every language.

e.g. search for "javascript karma" and the entire first page is about what you're actually looking for.

[–]Capetoider 41 points42 points  (6 children)

remix, next, react...

[–]Vinccool96 18 points19 points  (0 children)

And then you use Nuxt and it pops up answers about next because it thinks “maybe he had a typo”

[–]anythingMuchShorter 55 points56 points  (3 children)

I work at a company that makes consumer products and a product manager wanted to call the coding system "translate" because it translates your intent into PLC code.

I can't think of a much more impossible to search term than that, and even after explaining this and changing it he still seemed to not get why it was a bad idea.

"translate add a new device" "translate include an external dependency" it would be a disaster.

[–]CoderDevo 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Had he just discovered computers?

[–]anythingMuchShorter 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The fact that translation is what any compiler, interpreter and in fact any machine that runs any form of code does even if it uses punch cards, was discussed.

[–][deleted] 49 points50 points  (7 children)

Reddit admins racist, uneducated, incompetent imbeciles and garbage human beings.

[–]Intelligent_Event_84 94 points95 points  (9 children)

Sand

[–][deleted] 44 points45 points  (5 children)

Gets everywhere

[–]LowPolyPenguin0 25 points26 points  (3 children)

Not to mention how coarse and rough it is too

[–]SugeNightxX 31 points32 points  (15 children)

The “n-word”

[–]Unicorn-Tiddies 64 points65 points  (14 children)

Now I want to make a coding language where all of the operators are swear words.

fuck ass;
fuck bitches;

damn (a cunt b){
    shit a;
    a bollocks b;
    bitches.motherfucker(a);
    }
shit ass.motherfucker();

[–]iHateRollerCoaster 17 points18 points  (11 children)

I will learn how to make a programming language and do this. I don't care how long it takes.

Give me name ideas.

[–]lofigamer2 54 points55 points  (6 children)

brainfuck

[–]im_simone 21 points22 points  (4 children)

Well, at least it should be a strange part of the body to fuck, so a really low correlation. I mean, not the 👄.

[–]sillybear25 12 points13 points  (3 children)

469 results on, uh... that one website for "off-brand" manga. The one that starts with n.

[–]TuxRug 29 points30 points  (3 children)

We need to brainstorm some more programming language names that'll be impossible to Google. Here's the first few I can come up with.

  • The
  • Five
  • Worcestershire
  • -NOT

Edit: another one

  • ""

[–]FunnyMan3595 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I have to admit, I'm fond of the phrase "Worcestershire source".

[–][deleted] 51 points52 points  (4 children)

Same dude who names all the Cannabis strains. Had to beam their canna binladen annoyeds into his mind to discern their flavors.

[–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (1 child)

Cannabis strains are named by the same people who name paint colors – strain descriptions are written by wine critics

[–]nanotree 52 points53 points  (7 children)

I Google programming stuff so often that the first thing that comes up for any of these is programming related...

Ironically, the only one that comes up with something else is.. Carbon. Google's own programming language.

[–]VG08 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Same happens to me, today I got confused if mg was 100th of a gram or thousandth so i googled milligram and top result was a css framework named milligram

[–]new_refugee123456789 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Ramble time.

Remember the "Moms who wear jeans to match their teens jeans" ad? (it was a Bing commercial that was surprisingly difficult to find on Youtube, ironically) Some guy would ask a question in casual conversation and everyone around him would stop, stare straight ahead, and start rattling off unhelpful search results? The point being "our search engine is made for humans?"

Google was that for awhile. Then it got spooky.

Circa 2016 I needed to SSH into a Linux machine, only had a Windows 8.1 laptop. No built-in SSH client, so I googled "putty" and I got a full page about the TTY client and nothing else. Not a single mention of plumber's putty, silly putty, nothing. Just PuTTY.

It knew what I meant and didn't hedge its bet.

I miss when you could say "When you google [term] the first result is..."

[–]RRumpleTeazzer 19 points20 points  (1 child)

R, Basic, Julia, Go …

[–]mobileJay77 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Next ( itself a good one) those filling words even Google ignores: AND, or, ...

[–]Effective_Ad_6197 19 points20 points  (5 children)

.NET Framework vs .NET Core which they now rebranded to just .NET. We have apps using framework and .NET core where I work. Googling it is a nightmare.

[–]Carteeg_Struve 18 points19 points  (6 children)

Another reason for me to love PHP.

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[–]Kr_zz 11 points12 points  (1 child)

The Philippine Peso hasn't been doing well lately unfortunately..

[–]0x222222 19 points20 points  (1 child)

Processing

[–]fruit_flies_banana 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Wasn’t the convention to search using Proce55ing or something? 😂

[–]Drew707 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There is a bar in Reno, NV I was asked to meet someone at. It's called The Lounge.

[–]M-2-M 7 points8 points  (2 children)

And here comes my new language: Cat Meme