Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go - The Go Programming LanguageRob Pike 23 October 2013 Introduction The previous blog post explained how slices work in Go, using a number of examples to illustrate the mechanism behind their implementation. Building on that background, this post discusses strings in Go. At first, strings might seem too simple a topic for a blog post, but to use them well requires understanding not only how they work, but also the difference b
