I don’t feel terribly strongly either way, but I do lean towards the cleaner “Go” as that is the language’s true name and is more idiomatic Go :)
Folks will surely understand what it means either way, but I figured we should try to get ourselves set off on the right foot!
For the record I think a mix of terms could work too. Like the community url could remain the same: /c/golang aka !golang but then the ‘nice’ name could just be “Go programming language” or the context could be understood as we are on programming.dev and it could just be “Go”, as well as having the icon to help people identify it as the programming language.
Golang is the defacto searchable term for the language. Even allowing for minimum length limitations in lemmy it makes sense to use the searchable name in any text you wish to be found. Consider how people search for answers to programming questions and how lemmy posts might be indexed.
“Go” might be “cleaner,” but “Golang” is going to land more people here who are searching the web for Go content. “Golang” is simply more unique than “Go.”
Is it worth having the shorter name if it can end up costing visitors/potential new community members?
I agree with you. Golang is a useful symbol for things like a community ID, but the human readable name is “Go Programming Language”.
