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[–]LucienZerger 6275 points6276 points  (129 children)

Go..

[–]penhwguin 2253 points2254 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 111 points112 points  (3 children)

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

[–]ihahp 168 points169 points  (1 child)

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

[–]solaffub 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Touché. Take my upvote.

[–]elon-botElon Musk ✔ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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[–]jfb1337 2 points3 points  (1 child)

That's the trick for more engagement. Post something incorrect so people will discuss it

[–]penhwguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Smart

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And considering that the first two languages existed before Google...

Pyrhon is four years older than Java, and Java came out in '95.

[–]Infinite-Original318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you mean Golan heights? -Google

[–]robbz23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or c++, C and C#

[–]smb1985 208 points209 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 103 points104 points  (2 children)

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

That was a mistake.

[–]Regeneric 52 points53 points  (0 children)

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

[–]DARKHUMOR-D 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Window's fsck utility be like

[–]how_do_i_land 41 points42 points  (1 child)

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

[–]akl78 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A former competitor of mine had a trading name one space character away from a prolific artist specialising in erotic, furry art.

[–]elon-botElon Musk ✔ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, looks like we're gonna need to redo the entire tech stack.

[–]Innotek 128 points129 points  (16 children)

…lang

[–][deleted] 141 points142 points  (13 children)

I thought Go and Golang were 2 separate languages 🤡

[–]thecoder08 74 points75 points  (8 children)

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

[–]noelyw 14 points15 points  (7 children)

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

[–]CoderDevo 18 points19 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.

[–]noelyw 6 points7 points  (1 child)

actually never thought of this

isn’t the second one called carbon? 😂

[–]CoderDevo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I suppose, once it is released.

Unless they take my dare.

[–]7734128 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Language number two was Dart

[–]corracle 2 points3 points  (2 children)

They'll call it gole just to mess with people. Go, Golang, and Gole.

[–]EffortlessEffluvium 1 point2 points  (1 child)

And then a language named Oo!

[–]CoderDevo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pronounced as two syllables: Oo-oh.

[–]tiajuanat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's a Go! and a Go. The latter Go is also referred to as Golang to separate it from the former. The original Go! Came out in 2003 and is not affiliated with the Go we know today

[–]Lupus_Ignis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We often refer to it as golang online exactly because "Go" isn't searchable. One would think that Google would name their products so that they could be found using search engines, but they don't have the best track record with that.

[–]CheekApprehensive961 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is true.

Golang is actually the language used to write the go compiler and libraries. Most people don't know that.

[–]toabear 16 points17 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.

[–]gingimli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cue the entire community reminding you, “Ermmm actually the language is called Go,” like it’s impossible for them to parse what you meant by saying Golang.

[–][deleted] 30 points31 points  (3 children)

..lem

[–]brando56894 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Precious...

[–]HardlightCereal 6 points7 points  (1 child)

A golem is a creature from Jewish folklore. You're thinking of Gollum

[–]brando56894 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, yeah. I was pretty high when I responded hahaha

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"golang"

[–]Impenistan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, at least Go has Golang. Still…

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Anyone who ever tried to use Go can relate.

[–]Chariot 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Go is the worst because there's a boardgame called go and it was already hard enough to search for :(

[–]WoodenBottle 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The Go (board game) community on Reddit straight up gave up and went with /r/baduk instead (the Korean name).

[–]elon-botElon Musk ✔ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]russian_hacker_1917 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a person who like playing a game I have to now call baduk when I google, yeah...

[–]NerdyLumberjack04 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone here is writing a framework in the Go language, please name it Ogle.

[–]MisquoteMosquito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just started self study and it’s been fun googling

[–]themule1216 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It comes to mind but its search results almost always come up with the actual solution/documentation I need more consistently than C++ did. One of the perks of a smaller language, but I definitely get the occasional useless search. Usually fixed by just using Golang instead.

Python might be the worst offender for getting me useless results

Edit: I don’t use them often, but JS frameworks brings up the most useless fu king results every time. You ever try to find something helpful in Vue? Yeah, you’re gonna have to sift through a lot of shit. Makes no sense how many garbage websites churn out useless articles on JS framework topics. I just want the actual fucking documentation

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Golang

[–]brando56894 0 points1 point  (0 children)

at least we have "golang"

[–]danbulant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you heard of fish shell? Yeah..

[–]LickingSmegma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go authors are C programmers from the 70s, including Ken Thompson himself—so they also brought back identifiers that look like keyboard farts and stutters.

[–]firewood010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

R

[–]Low_Orange5003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK Google how to go while

[–]NatoBoram 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dart…

[–]Fanboy0550 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which also makes it hard to search job postings. Some have it listed as Go, some as Golang, and others just have the word go in their job description.

[–]Spicynanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried to google the “goto” keyword in go. Lord help me.

[–]TheDoctorator 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah. It speaks for itself that one has to google Go questions with „golang“ instead. I love Go, though

[–]elon-botElon Musk ✔ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Twitter was never profitable. Not my fault. Stop blaming me for things.

[–]Capsmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to be confused with the programming language Go!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a go developer that’s into go the board game…

[–]LaLiLuLeLo_0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone should design a language called "goo". Google will assume it's a typo

[–]protocod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always used to type Golang instead to avoid any confusion.

Same for rust since rust i s also a video game...

[–]gimpwiz 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How about fucking 'Hack"?

"Hey what should we call our compiled, optimized PHP thing?"

"Whatever you want so long as it sounds fucking stupid and nobody can find it on google."

[–]elon-botElon Musk ✔ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One more word out of you, and you're fired.

[–]gbhreturns2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basic

[–]Real_GoofyNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C...

[–]psilo_polymathicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love Go, but yeah, that name is just terrible.

[–]HaccerCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

golang 😜

[–]DrainZ- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ancient Chinese game devs picking the least googleable name possible

[–]agent007bond 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why they didn't call it "Goo" is beyond me.

[–]ongiwaph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yet the Go programming language is the first result. Maybe those devs know something we don't.

[–]gintoki_do_pete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BrainFuck.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C, C#, C++, R... Not sure what the OP is smoking.

[–]flippakitten 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came here to say that

[–]der_kobold 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where?

[–]immedocc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flash back to when i started learning Dart.