-lang
suffixEtymology From lang, itself a shortened form of language.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Informal, Morpheme Combining with the names of programming languages, especially those which may be confused with common English words.
- "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.2020 April 30, Liam Tung, “Microsoft: Why we used programming language Rust over Go for WebAssembly on Kubernetes app”, in ZDNET, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2024:
- 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 July 27, Ravie Lakshmanan, “Hackers Turning to 'Exotic' Programming Languages for Malware Development”, in The Hacker News, archived from the original on 20 May 2024:
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- 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.[2021 October 8, u/theclapp, “What's up with people not liking the term "golang"?”, in Reddit, r/golang, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2024:
- For the Golang community, it didn't help that the language came out of Google, an advertising platform with accessories.2023 May 17, Thomas Claburn, “Google Go language goes with opt-in telemetry”, in The Register, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2024:
- 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 July 26, Alex Lashkov, “The New Wave of Programming Languages: Pony, Zig, Crystal, Vlang, and Julia”, in Hackaday, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2024:
- 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.2023 December 11, Connor Jones, “Memory-safe languages so hot right now, agrees Lazarus Group as it slings DLang malware”, in The Register, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2024:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences In compounds, Informal, Morpheme Combining form of language.
- proto- + -lang → protolang
- auxiliary + -lang → auxlang