[danellis]

The Go community had to do the same. Go. A language created by a company that makes a well known search engine.

[abrowne]

But by staff who has worked on Plan 9, right?

[aasasd]

Those people made it so that one-letter identifier names and junk like ‘fmt’ and ‘Fprintln(w)’ is again okay. So the unusable name fits the spirit quite well.

[GauntletWizard]

Sometimes obscurity, as well as tweaking your nose at convention, is a feature.