Golf soon to change name
Golf will soon be renamed.
We got lots of feedback regarding the name, mostly for being hard to find. First of all, there's an inordinate amount of golf stuff, related to the sport. But, using 'golf-lang' instead of 'golf' would alleviate that.
And then there's golfing in programming. Believe or not, we didn't know about "golfing" languages at the time. It's a cool niche culture of programming, however Golf isn't exactly like it.
It's actually in many ways the opposite of a golfing language, it's verbose and easy to read and write, and it's both a general purpose and Domain Specific Language. So it would be a mental mismatch thinking about what it is.
And there's the web search, where it'd burried behind hundreds of golfing languages, which is something that people who saw it and then wanted to find it again would really find difficult.
Please note that the language itself will remain the same, with a few minor exceptions. The file extension of source code files will change. And the URL to the official web site will too. The old web site will redirect there of course. But everything else should remain the same AFAIK.
I am not sure when will this happen. Apologies for any inconvenience and thank you for understanding!
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