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My weird obsessive brain has a “Call the Thing by its Actual Name” reflex that causes me to flinch whenever I see ‘golang’.
For hashtags or a domain name? Fine. But not the language name itself, for $deity’s sake. Nobody calls themselves a Pythonlang or Rustlang programmer, do they?
(If you do, then you are excused for at least being consistent…)
Ok, rant over.
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