Comment by win311fwg
19 days ago
> because the LLVM people called their frontend "clang" I can't even use that
Said frontend is for the C programming language. Isn't that perfectly appropriate? I did a web search for "golang" and the first result was a download page for a Go compiler, so there is precedent.
What's the first result for "clang"? How about in private browsing?
A page about a C compiler. Not unlike the "golang" result, except without the same level of polish. The download link is similarly present, although due to the design choices doesn't stand out as the primary focus like it does in the "golang" case. I would consider the basic intent to be the same for both.
Which is the best one could hope for given that the search engine doesn't control the content. If I am searching for "golang", a Go compiler is the most likely thing I would want to find. Presumably someone who already has a Go compiler installed will have more specific queries. Likewise, if I am searching for "clang", a C compiler is also the most likely thing I would want to find. For all intents and purposes that is the entry point into using a language.
All in all the search engine did a great job and gave exactly what I would have expected.