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Golang
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golang
English
Etymology
en :af Go<id:language> -lang 1
From en Go<id:language> -lang, used to avoid ambiguity.
Proper noun
en programming language en Go<id:language>.
en 8 October 2021 theclapp golang q3wbxn hfweyc7 What's up with people not liking the term "golang"? https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20260721150742/https://old.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/q3wbxn/whats_up_with_people_not_liking_the_term_golang/hfweyc7/ 21 July 2026 I don't mind people saying Golang. Once. In a title or a tag or something. So search engines can find it. Once. Once. Fucking once. on 21 July 2026
en Thomas Claburn Google Go language goes with opt-in telemetry w:The Register https://web.archive.org/web/20240802004251/https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/17/googles_go_data_collection/ 17 May 2023 For the Golang community, it didn't help that the language came out of Google, an advertising platform with accessories.