-lang

Combining with the names of programming languages, especially those which may be confused with common English words.

Suffix

  1. 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...
    • 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...
    • 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"?”,...
  2. Combining form of language.
    • proto- + -lang → protolang
    • auxiliary + -lang → auxlang

Origin

From lang, itself a shortened form of language.