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.
Searching "site:news.ycombinator.com go" on Google didn't yield any results that weren't about the Go programming language even after going several pages deep. What kind of search problems are you having, exactly?
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.
But if you go to the search box at the bottom of the HN page and type in 'go' the first hit is "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free," In the top 10 results, only _two_ are about Go, the language.
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.
9rx|22 days ago
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.
ternaryoperator|22 days ago
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.
pjmlp|22 days ago
It might end up finding stuff about a compiler though.