[djur]

"Making a simple DNS resolver with miekg/dns in Go" would have given me the false impression that the article was about how to use miekg/dns. "A DNS resolver in Go" would have given me the false impression that it was about a full-fledged DNS resolver meant for integrating with Go applications. The current title at least pushed me in the direction of understanding what the article is about, which is demonstrating how DNS resolution works using a short Go program.

[zamadatix]

That wouldn't be a false impression, this article is indeed about how to use miekg/dns to make a resolver. Your comments on the other title already apply to the current title as is, it's one of things people hate about these titles but at least the cut title avoids the line count/"nothing is from scratch" debates.

Increasingly more accurate titles always accepted of course though but one thing for sure is the class of "<x> in <y lines>" are demonstrably a continuous problem to the point they are talked about instead of the articles they represent, they are not just minor wording nits one could come up with after staring at a title long enough.

Edit: I really like the title the article itself changed to "A toy DNS resolver".