> it’s very likely large parts of the standard library will get rewritten with them soon It's not. The Go 1 backwards compatibility promise means existing inte

> it’s very likely large parts of the standard library will get rewritten with them soon It's not. The Go 1 backwards compatibility promise means existing interfaces won't change. Take the Math package for instance: I'm not aware of any planned breaking changes -- if you are, please share. If they were to add support for non-int64 operations, they would likely be separate functions or a new package. This, without sweeping code changes, nothing changes.