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Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go

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Re: Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go

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Post by PaulRobinson »

kuschku wrote: post #6
agnivade wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go programmers are called gophers. Nothing to do with the gopher protocol.

So, not only did the go programming language overshadow the other go programming language, their gophers are also overshadowing the other gophers? This is a bit annoying.

Go had over 300 meanings in the OED already.

Most people in the community will happily refer to it as 'golang' when talking about the language, and in that context, it is obvious what a gopher is.

If you think this is annoying, well, there are a lot of things you can be annoyed about: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42480/words-with...

In this scenario, we should stop using 'run' to describe program execution and avoid the use of the word 'set' in computer science. Think that's likely to happen?

Re: Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go

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Post by Jaruzel »

kuschku wrote: post #3

So, are those posts available via gopher://, or why is this called a gopher reading list?

Easily fixed:

- When talking about Go the language: type it as 'GOpher'

- When talking about the protocol Gopher: type it as 'Gopher'.

If even just the HN community adopted this, there'd be less confusion.

Re: Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go

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Post by HankB99 »

guessmyname wrote: post #2

Most of the links point to 3rd-party blog posts that could be taken down any time. I think a better GitHub project would be to cache the content of those articles — in accordance with their respective copyright terms, of course. I was personally disappointed that not many books have been referenced there, nor formal papers. Good list nonetheless, for people who have no idea what to read or where to start.

While looking for something on "the other go programming language" I ran across this book list: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Books Maybe the creator of this repo didn't want it to be yet another book list.

Re: Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go

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Post by HankB99 »

kuschku wrote: post #6
agnivade wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go programmers are called gophers. Nothing to do with the gopher protocol.

So, not only did the go programming language overshadow the other go programming language, their gophers are also overshadowing the other gophers? This is a bit annoying.

What is "the other go programming language"?

Re: Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go

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Post by shaftoe »

Jaruzel wrote: post #13
kuschku wrote: post #3

So, are those posts available via gopher://, or why is this called a gopher reading list?

Easily fixed: - When talking about Go the language: type it as 'GOpher' - When talking about the protocol Gopher: type it as 'Gopher'. If even just the HN community adopted this, there'd be less confusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Decline

"In March 2017 Veronica indexed 133 gopher servers"

https://blog.golang.org/8years

"Go has been embraced by developers all over the world with approximately one million users worldwide. In the freshly published 2017 Octoverse by GitHub, Go has become the #9 most popular language, surpassing C. Go is the fastest growing language on GitHub in 2017 in the top 10 with 52% growth over the previous year. In growth, Go swapped places with Javascript, which fell to the second spot with 44%."

Re: Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go

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Post by kuschku »

HankB99 wrote: post #16
kuschku wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, not only did the go programming language overshadow the other go programming language, their gophers are also overshadowing the other gophers? This is a bit annoying.

What is "the other go programming language"?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)

Re: Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go

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Post by Jaruzel »

shaftoe wrote: post #18
Jaruzel wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Easily fixed: - When talking about Go the language: type it as 'GOpher' - When talking about the protocol Gopher: type it as 'Gopher'. If even just the HN community adopted this, there'd be less confusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Decline "In March 2017 Veronica indexed 133 gopher servers" https://blog.golang.org/8years "Go has been embraced by developers all over the world with approximately one million users worldwide. In the freshly published 2017 Octoverse by GitHub, Go has become the #9 most popular language, surpassing C. Go is the fastest growing language on GitHub in 2017 in the top 10 wi…

And? Gopher (the protocol) is not dead yet. There's an active retro community keeping it alive and developing it. Just because it's no longer mainstream doesn't mean it should be erased from our lexicon.

How about I invent something and call it COBOL, is that OK?

If we expect our industry to ever grow up, we need to respect its history, and not keep overwriting it.

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