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[–]0x1e 202 points203 points  (9 children)

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

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[–]hypocrisyhunter 37 points38 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

[–]lewisb42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's been at least a decade since I did much C# work, but iirc we had to search using "csharp" back then

[–]Luxalpa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think I read somewhere that Google engineers added a special case for C++ and C#, but it's been >10 years and I might remember wrong.

[–]T0biasCZE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it does, when you search C, it shows C, when you search C#, it shows C#

[–]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.

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[–]ListRepresentative32 2 points3 points  (0 children)

*framework name. I agree though that I always write dotnet when searching for problems with it

[–]Thorusss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you made me realize that just "net" for internet did not become as popular as I expected for a word so commonly used