On Sat, 2023-06-17 at 21:11 -0400, Tom Swartz wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2023, 21:04 Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote: > > "To me "golang" > > sounds similar to "ching chang chong", > > > Holy smokes that's racist as hell. > > Mods? >
Hi. as already said before "ching chang chong", is not part of my vocabulary! > Racist phrasing aside, The programming language here is often referred to as > "Golang" because of its former domain name, golang.org, despite its proper > name being Go. > > Golang is still widely used for specificity in searching since 'go' is often > too generic of a term You could honestly ask for "Google programming language"! If I google for "google programming language" the first hit I get is "An open-source programming language supported by Google" - https://go.dev IMO "googlelanguage" fits best.
