Out of all the string types I have used, I think Go has the best of them. Since it's a GC'd language, you don't have to pay the refcount atomic overhead. The

Out of all the string types I have used, I think Go has the best of them. Since it's a GC'd language, you don't have to pay the refcount atomic overhead. The representation is two only words long. Strings are immutable, making them suitable map keys. Strings don't carry any encoding information; they are plain byte-arrays.