> Go should just be labeled Gogame in contrast to Golang.
At the same time, there's something amusing about the idea that a six year-old programming language should cause a 2000 year old game to change its name.
There was a reason for that though. Before the latter half of the 20th century Japanese go scene kind of dominated for several centuries (thanks to official shogun sponsor).
More importantly, until the past few decades, Japan did the majority of the go outreach in the West. That's changed a bit, and thanks to Korean influence, it's more common to hear people saying "baduk".
At the same time, there's something amusing about the idea that a six year-old programming language should cause a 2000 year old game to change its name.