[LaPrometheus]

This is typical Google/DeepMind ignorance. The rest of the world is non-exist.

[krisives]

I believe it started with Golang, where Go was already an existing language by a hobbyist - granted nobody was using it kinda lame to steal his name.

[nl]

While I agree with the other two, I remember when Golang came out and no one except the author of the other Go language had ever heard of it.

[visarga]

Go was taken by ancient China before that.

[nielsbot]

maybe the game itself but the name is derived from Japanese, fairly recently

[CardenB]

First Flume and now this.

Flume is a map reduce framework at google and it is also the same name as a product by apache.

[jwilbs]

Ignorance, or arrogance? I find it hard to believe that devs at the caliber Google employs are ignorant of existing software, especially when it's in the same (or related) domain.