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My personal pet peeve is golang. No language is named like that. The language name is Go. Calling it golang because of the domain name of the project is like saying typescriptlang instead of Typescript.

Names don't have any such requirements - but we should use them correctly. You don't rename Windows even though it's not a hole in the wall stuffed with glass.

It's just irksome. I don't think Windows is a good analogy.

More like if I called the OS "Windows.jpg".

If you're going to use something that looks like a filename as a product name, then make sure that file actually exists and is in the expected format.

D3.js --> good

Angular.js --> good

Node.js --> bad

python3.py --> bad

Windows.jpg --> bad

Windows.exe --> okay (I don't use windows but I assume there's something of the sort)

I agree it's not a great name - but IMHO using names incorrectly is even worse than bad naming.

If you are going to get this pedantic, then why not also include *.com as bad, because that was a file type in DOS.

JavaScript is not a scripting language for Java.