-lang

English

Etymology

From lang, itself a shortened form of language.

Suffix

-lang

1. (programming, informal) Combining with the names of programming languages, especially those which may be confused with common English words.
   • 2020 April 30, Liam Tung}, “Microsoft: Why we used programming language Rust over Go for WebAssembly on Kubernetes app”, in ZDNET‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-06-30:

     "One of the biggest ones to point out is that async runtimes are still a bit unclear," noted Thomas. He also said the learning curve was difficult, which chimes with top obstacles to Rust adoption revealed in Rustlang's most recent survey of developers.

   • 2021 July 27, Ravie Lakshmanan, “Hackers Turning to 'Exotic' Programming Languages for Malware Development”, in The Hacker News‎^[2], archived from the original on 2024-05-20:

     Threat actors are increasingly shifting to "exotic" programming languages such as Go, Rust, Nim, and Dlang that can better circumvent conventional security protections, evade analysis, and hamper reverse engineering efforts.

   • [2021 October 8, u/theclapp, “What's up with people not liking the term "golang"?”, in Reddit‎^[3], r/golang, archived from the original on 11 August 2024:

     I don't mind people saying Golang. Once. In a title or a tag or something. So search engines can find it. Once. Once. Fucking once.]

   • 2023 May 17, Thomas Claburn, “Google Go language goes with opt-in telemetry”, in The Register‎^[4], archived from the original on 2024-08-02:

     For the Golang community, it didn't help that the language came out of Google, an advertising platform with accessories.

   • 2023 July 26, Alex Lashkov, “The New Wave of Programming Languages: Pony, Zig, Crystal, Vlang, and Julia”, in Hackaday‎^[5], archived from the original on 2024-07-08:

     Vlang's simplicity and performance are promising, but its novelty results in a lack of comprehensive libraries and the small community. The language is also under constant changes which may cause instability and compatibility issues.

   • 2023 December 11, Connor Jones, “Memory-safe languages so hot right now, agrees Lazarus Group as it slings DLang malware”, in The Register‎^[6], archived from the original on 2024-08-02:

     The researchers noted that DLang is an uncommon choice for writing malware, but a shift towards newer languages and frameworks is one that's been accelerating over the last few years – in malware coding as in the larger programming world.