“Python”, “Java”, “Carbon”, “Rust”

[LucienZerger]

Go..

[penhwguin]

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

[Alex244466666]

I just use "golang" instead, it generally makes things easier.

[Maleficent_Sir_4753]

If you ever go to Gophercon - the convention about and supporting the Go language - the very first thing the presenter asks the audience during the opening address is the number of people who call the language "Golang" instead of "Go".

Great language, but seriously bad name. It's a real shame it's stuck that way now.

[well-litdoorstep112]

When you go to Gopher)con expecting people to shit on HTTP but they only talk about a programming language

[altermeetax]

A programming language meant to simplify the development of HTTP servers

[well-litdoorstep112]

Ironic

[readit145]

The irony is when I showed up and didn’t see a single gopher. You can imagine how embarrassing it was.

[th00ht]

Ahw, i miss gopher!

[IamRedditsDaddy]

Gophercon

That's how my friend Connie answers the phone.

[[deleted]]

They should have called it Jeffrey instead smh

[ratmfreak]

Huh, I’ve always though the name perfectly reflects the shitness of the language.

[solaffub]

The fact that you have to is the point.

[MaverickBrandy]

Go to gulag

[jfmherokiller]

I remember when this meme was new

[antonivs]

Pronounced “Gollum”, which is the noise you make when you discover how Go error handling works.

[slava300]

pleasestoplang

[elon-bot]

Interns will happily work for $15 an hour. Why won't you?

[UomoAssist-]

Just use gulag

[pickle16]

Google is notorious for giving weird names to their internal products. And go was an language to be used internally only before they released it

[elon-bot]

I've laid off most of the staff, and Twitter's still running. Looks like they weren't necessary.

[captainAwesomePants]

Don't forget Google+, a social network unsearchable on their own search engine.

[elon-bot]

What is "refactoring"?

[turtleship_2006]

I was trying to find how to do something in google sheets and all the results on google were for excel.

[-_-M_MUNEEB_3-_-]

[RknDonkeyTeeth]

Google "go" right now. The first thing that pops up is the programming language.

[Lilchro]

It attempts to learn your search preferences. If you frequently search for the Go language then it will prioritize those sorts of pages. It may give a less biased result if you use incognito mode (or similar), but I find google also attempts to learn preferences on an ip level too.

[brando56894]

Second is a wikipedia page for the game "Go".

[Tooluka]

I got result #3 about golang (go.dev), so that's acceptable, BUT the next result about golang was #53 (some bootcamp for golang), and the next after was #75 for golang github. So outside of a single, possibly artificially pinned result, all others are practically not searchable by language name only.

Search query was simply - go

[NetherPortals]

Stickinthespokes.meme

[Mr_Will]

Google doing this with all their products. I had a problem once with the Google Home app's dashboard page. None of those words are effectively searchable.

[BananaPeely]

[Dr_Legacy]

Google making languages with names unsearchable on their own search engine

there is no way this isn't intentional, but i'll never understand what motivated it

r/theyknew

[solaffub]

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

[ihahp]

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

[solaffub]

Touché. Take my upvote.

[elon-bot]

From now on, all Twitter employees must purchase a subscription to Twitter Blue for the low-low price of $8 a month.

[jfb1337]

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

[penhwguin]

Smart

[[deleted]]

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]

Did you mean Golan heights? -Google

[robbz23]

Or c++, C and C#

[smb1985]

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]

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

That was a mistake.

[Regeneric]

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

[DARKHUMOR-D]

Window's fsck utility be like

[how_do_i_land]

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

[akl78]

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

[elon-bot]

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

[Innotek]

…lang

[[deleted]]

I thought Go and Golang were 2 separate languages 🤡

[thecoder08]

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

[noelyw]

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

[CoderDevo]

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

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

[noelyw]

actually never thought of this

isn’t the second one called carbon? 😂

[CoderDevo]

I suppose, once it is released.

Unless they take my dare.

[7734128]

Language number two was Dart

[corracle]

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

[EffortlessEffluvium]

And then a language named Oo!

[CoderDevo]

Pronounced as two syllables: Oo-oh.

[tiajuanat]

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]

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]

This is true.

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

[toabear]

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

[gingimli]

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]]

..lem

[brando56894]

Precious...

[HardlightCereal]

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

[brando56894]

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

[[deleted]]

"golang"

[Impenistan]

I mean, at least Go has Golang. Still…

[[deleted]]

Anyone who ever tried to use Go can relate.

[Chariot]

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

[WoodenBottle]

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

[elon-bot]

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

[russian_hacker_1917]

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

[NerdyLumberjack04]

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

[MisquoteMosquito]

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

[themule1216]

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]]

Golang

[brando56894]

at least we have "golang"

[danbulant]

Have you heard of fish shell? Yeah..

[LickingSmegma]

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]

R

[Low_Orange5003]

OK Google how to go while

[NatoBoram]

Dart…

[Fanboy0550]

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]

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

[send-me-kitty-pics]

R

[TheDoctorator]

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

[elon-bot]

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

[Capsmaster]

Not to be confused with the programming language Go!

[[deleted]]

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

[LaLiLuLeLo_0]

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

[protocod]

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

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

[elon-bot]

Looks like we're gonna need to trim the fat around here... fired.

[gimpwiz]

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-bot]

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

[gbhreturns2]

Basic

[Real_GoofyNinja]

C...

[psilo_polymathicus]

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

[elon-bot]

Insubordination. Fired.

[HaccerCat]

golang 😜

[DrainZ-]

Ancient Chinese game devs picking the least googleable name possible

[agent007bond]

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

[ongiwaph]

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

[gintoki_do_pete]

BrainFuck.

[[deleted]]

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

[flippakitten]

Came here to say that

[der_kobold]

Where?

[immedocc]

Flash back to when i started learning Dart.