> If the documentation for this function went on along the lines of "we discourage the use of 3 way compares as we consider it an antipattern, do X instead, the

> If the documentation for this function went on along the lines of "we discourage the use of 3 way compares as we consider it an antipattern, do X instead, there's literally no reason to ever use 3 way compares, we know it, here's why..." maybe, but it doesn't. But it does. It literally says "It is usually clearer and always faster to use the built-in string comparison" and it always said that. https://pkg.go.dev/strings@go1.5#Compare https://pkg.go.dev/strings@go1.5#Compare https://pkg.go.dev/strings@go1.19.2#Compare https://pkg.go.dev/strings@go1.19.2#Compare The entire documentation for this function is four short sentences. If my code editor didn't make it easy and natural to see them, I'd rethink my shit right now.