The language is called Go, golang is the website domain.
The use of "golang" for posts and comments is desirable IMHO because it greatly facilitates search, especially on sites such as HN that cover many languages.
Readit Newsternaryoperator commented on I write games in C (yes, C) (2016) jonathanwhiting.com/writi... · Posted by u/valyala
ternaryoperator commented on G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB) · Posted by u/pouyathe
Everything was going reasonably OK until I got down to that gigantic rat's nest of if-else statements and embedded for loops. OMG
Yowza! Lines 1566-1637 consist entirely of closing braces. That's 70 closing braces in a row. Beyond the nightmare of maintenance, it's got to be a performance drag on the compilation.
ternaryoperator commented on Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-sw... · Posted by u/behnamoh
FWIW, Swift for Windows is a thing (https://www.swift.org/install/windows/), and there's a new Windows-specific workgroup: https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-windows-workgroup/
That's progress over where it was a year ago. But the almost complete absence of packages that run on Windows makes the progress made so far more of a curiosity than a usable option--alas. I'd use Swift in a heartbeat if it had even a semblance of a decent ecosystem on Windows.
ternaryoperator commented on The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala scala-lang.org/blog/2026/... · Posted by u/bishabosha
Others worth mentioning are Kotlin, Ada, Pascal, Haskell, Zig, Erlang, Elixir, Prolog, Ocaml.
How is Zig an EU language?
I understand the first paragraph is set to draw you in but honestly I was thing with every sentence: speak for yourself. None of it describes me. It's also not my experience in general, but maybe me and those around me are odd?
Well, given the detailed statistics re reading in the US, I think she is speaking for more than herself, no?
An equally valid headline is "Investors purchased $8B of US Treasury Bonds". Never really got the point of people announcing US Treasury sales like its a big thing. Someone else not thinking with their emotions can, and will buy them. Its like announcing publicly you are selling your Honda. Its your Honda bro, sell it.
It has importance beyond that someone else bought the bonds. It also suggests they will not be buyers in the future. If they represent the beginning of a trend and Europe stops buying US bonds, that will be a serious blow to the US economy.
ternaryoperator commented on Common misunderstandings about large software companies philipotoole.com/common-m... · Posted by u/otoolep
Are you in a completely different world than me? Because even the CEO of Boeing is not an engineer. Larry Ellison The CEO of the biggest bank in my country holds a masters degree in business economics, but nothing related to finance, econometrics or risk management. The CEO of US steel is an accountant. Don't even get me started on the (non)education of some politicians.
Understanding the product is often important, but equally often it is something you can delegate to others. It's only the younglings that think intimate knowledge of the product is the hallmark of a great leader, because that is the only thing they themselves bring to the table.
I agree fully with your comment, but I wish to point out that Larry Ellison's was a programmer at the time that the company that became Oracle was founded by him and his co-founders.
ternaryoperator commented on An Honest Review of Go (2025) benraz.dev/blog/golang_re... · Posted by u/benrazdev
Go is a pleasure to use. The stdlib is one of the most complete, while keeping the keyword count low. LLMs understand it very well, project size stays low, line count stays low (if err nil included), doesn't need a bunch of scaffolded boilerplate in the project directory, and it compiles very quickly for a ton of OS and architectures. Very seldom do I ever need to go outside of the stdlib.
Is it perfect for everything? no. Is it the fastest compiled language out there? no. But, it'll do most things very well, and for me that's good enough. I choose go because when I need to make something, it steps aside and lets me build, and for that I have great respect and appreciation for it.
I will be defering all detractors and negative comments ;)
> The stdlib is one of the most complete
Coming from Java, I find the standard lib very small. A case in point is the collections library: arrays/slices, map, list, ring, and heap -- that's about as minimal as you can get.
ternaryoperator commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot
If you think this is primarily about drugs and authoritarianism, don't overlook this one important dimension: the country with the largest proven oil reserves in the world is...Venezuela.
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And why is it unique to Go? I am sure there are comments on HN about metal oxidization, making sharp changes in direction, Norse gods, and letters of the alphabet.
Whereas the first 50 golang hits are all about the language.
You might have your preferred approach, but there are good reasons for using golang.