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danellis on April 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

> Golang

I see this a lot. Do people not realize that the language is called Go, and that 'golang' is just a domain name, like 'ruby-lang', 'scala-lang' etc?

jotux on April 18, 2014 | [–]

People realize it but also admit it's a terrible name for a language and referring to it as golang is much better in the long run.

sillysaurus3 on April 18, 2014 | [–]

It's a habit I picked up because Google is my primary learning tool. "Golang how to X" is almost always a superior search phrase than "Go how to X".

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