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Re:Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl by bsg75 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @01:38PM (#20225329)
> where a nontrivial number of people refer to Go as Golang

https://golang.org/

Simple names in the era of the web are not always a good idea. Also see https://www.r-project.org/

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Re:Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl by signal11 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @05:22PM (#20227478)
Sadly, there’s a fair amount of sniping[1] in parts of the Go community if you use “Golang” instead of “Go”.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18717303

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