I'm fairly sure that Emacs's go-mode, which doesn't use a full-blown parser, won't make the mistake of treating a paren inside a string as if it were outside ei

I'm fairly sure that Emacs's go-mode, which doesn't use a full-blown parser, won't make the mistake of treating a paren inside a string as if it were outside either. Or if it did, that would be easy to fix. Emacs has a generic lightweight parsing facility that can tell you if you're inside a string, or a comment, or how to skip over a string, or a pair of matching parens/braces/brackets, and so on.