Golang

2218 readers

1 users here now

This is a community dedicated to the go programming language.

Useful Links:

Rules:

Posts must be relevant to Go
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Try to keep discussions on topic
No spam of tools/companies/advertisements
It’s OK to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the community should not be self-promotion.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Ategon

RandomDevOpsDude

austin

Is Golang the name we want to use for the official Go community here? (go.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by ArtificialQualia to c/golang

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I don't feel terribly strongly either way, but I do lean towards the cleaner "Go" as that is the language's true name and is more idiomatic Go :)

Folks will surely understand what it means either way, but I figured we should try to get ourselves set off on the right foot!

For the record I think a mix of terms could work too. Like the community url could remain the same: /c/golang aka !golang but then the 'nice' name could just be "Go programming language" or the context could be understood as we are on programming.dev and it could just be "Go", as well as having the icon to help people identify it as the programming language.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] shirro 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Golang is the defacto searchable term for the language. Even allowing for minimum length limitations in lemmy it makes sense to use the searchable name in any text you wish to be found. Consider how people search for answers to programming questions and how lemmy posts might be indexed.

[–] firelizzard 3 points 1 year ago

If the URL is the long version (/c/golang) and the 'nice' name is "Go", it should still show up in searches

[–] ArtificialQualia 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is definitely logic in that, but the most google'd go resources don't use the term golang. go.dev and pkg.go.dev haven't used 'golang' since the .dev domain, and stackoverflow only lets you use the 'go' tag. That said obviously many others do use golang like reddit's /r/golang for instance, although that is probably due to the same limitation on name length as lemmy.

[–] shirro 2 points 1 year ago

I prefer the look of Go or The Go Programming Language for branding so not fussed by the community name. The use of golang is just a hack but a useful one. It is used by other languages as well eg ziglang, rustlang when you want to distinguish from other uses of the word. Go has the additional problem of being too short but at least it isn't c.

[–] degrix 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with this reasoning entirely. I find myself still using "Golang" in a lot of my more esoteric searches.