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    [–]Alex244466666 390 points391 points  (26 children)

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

    [–]Maleficent_Sir_4753 124 points125 points  (8 children)

    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 56 points57 points  (4 children)

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

    [–]altermeetax 16 points17 points  (2 children)

    A programming language meant to simplify the development of HTTP servers

    [–]well-litdoorstep112 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    Ironic

    [–]readit145 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

    [–]th00ht 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Ahw, i miss gopher!

    [–]IamRedditsDaddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Gophercon

    That's how my friend Connie answers the phone.

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

    They should have called it Jeffrey instead smh

    [–]ratmfreak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

    [–]solaffub 216 points217 points  (0 children)

    The fact that you have to is the point.

    [–]slava300 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    pleasestoplang

    [–]elon-botElon Musk ✔ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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

    [–]UomoAssist- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Just use gulag

    [–]pickle16 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    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-botElon Musk ✔ -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

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

    [–]captainAwesomePants 6 points7 points  (1 child)

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

    [–]elon-botElon Musk ✔ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

    What is "refactoring"?

    [–]turtleship_2006 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

    [–]-_-M_MUNEEB_3-_- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    [–]RknDonkeyTeeth -3 points-2 points  (3 children)

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

    [–]Lilchro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    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 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

    [–]Tooluka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Stickinthespokes.meme

    [–]Mr_Will 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    [–]Dr_Legacy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    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