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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *gāną Proto-West Germanic *gān Old English gān Middle English gon English go ▲ English Googleinflu. English Go Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Vulgar Latin *linguāticum Old French languagebor. Middle English langage English languageclip. English lang English -lang English Golang From Go + -lang, used to avoid ambiguity.
Meanings
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Synonym of Go.
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.
[2021 October 8, u/theclapp, “What's up with people not liking the term "golang"?”, in Reddit, r/golang, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2026:For the Golang community, it didn't help that the language came out of Google, an advertising platform with accessories.
2023 May 17, Thomas Claburn, “Google Go language goes with opt-in telemetry”, in The Register, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2024: