What's coming in Go 1.15

Posted May 14, 2020 11:43 UTC (Thu) by leromarinvit (subscriber, #56850)
In reply to: What's coming in Go 1.15 by Karellen
Parent article: What's coming in Go 1.15

Seriously, I used to know what it did, and now I'm blanking on it. So I tried to find out what it was, and came up short. Search engines are swamped with references to the Linus' git (and github), and Wikipedia's page for git, and the disambiguation page for git, don't mention it.

Doesn't that kind of refute your point that [y]ou could at least distinguish between them by search for "git version control" or "git [whatever the other program did]"? Anyway, I guess you mean gnuit, which includes a file manager that apparently used to be called "git" (and is now called "gitfm"). I only found it because I remembered that the git (VCS) package used to be called git-core in Debian and derivatives, because "git" was already taken. Debian's snapshot archive still has entries for the old package. But without that knowledge, I probably wouldn't have found it. Neither Google nor Duck Duck Go turn up gnuit for me when searching for "git file manager".

What's coming in Go 1.15

Posted May 15, 2020 9:04 UTC (Fri) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644) [Link]

Doesn't that kind of refute your point

Not really? I don't think that there are going to be many instances where someone is going to be searching for a particular software package, knowing only its name, and not having a clue what it does. The only reason I was searching some software called "git" without knowing anything about what it did was to try and make a clever point on an internet forum unrelated to what it actually did. I think that 99.99% of the time that people search for software, it's because they want to use the software for a purpose, so they probably have a good idea of what it does.

I did at least acknowledge the irony of the situation. :-)

Anyway, yes, it was "gnuit" that I was trying to find. Thanks! Hopefully that will stick in my brain for the next time this topic comes up somewhere...