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by ihsw 4361 days ago
These are massive names using Go now. This is an exciting time for Gophers.
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I'm curious how a vague cheerleading-your-favourite-technology comment became the most upvoted in this discussion.
I think "This is an exciting time for Gophers." is the reason.
Gophers? Thats what developers who use the Go language call themselves?

What's with the ridiculously bad naming/branding in the tech world?

* Gophers (the animal) are considered by many to be a pest.

* The Docker logo is a whale carrying shipping containers on its back. Shipping containers that go into the ocean are basically unrecoverable/not worth recovering, and whales spend very little of their time on the surface (meaning all the containers will go into the ocean)

This is as ridiculous as having an airline named after an animal that cannot fly and kills people.

That would be Tiger Airways https://tigerair.com