Golang is the defacto searchable term for the language. Even allowing for minimum length limitations in lemmy it makes sense to use the searchable name in any text you wish to be found. Consider how people search for answers to programming questions and how lemmy posts might be indexed.
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If the URL is the long version (/c/golang) and the 'nice' name is "Go", it should still show up in searches
I'm commenting since I'm not sure this merits its own post - I think the icon should be the gopher, as that is more recognizable than the GO logo, especially at smaller sizes.
I agree with you. Golang is a useful symbol for things like a community ID, but the human readable name is "Go Programming Language".
"Go" might be "cleaner," but "Golang" is going to land more people here who are searching the web for Go content. "Golang" is simply more unique than "Go."
Is it worth having the shorter name if it can end up costing visitors/potential new community members?
Note that there is currently an artificial three letter minimum built into Lemmy that were looking into removing for the instance (although that may take a bit)
Does that apply to the display name or just to the URL?
both