calling articles about language features and/or their implementations a "smell" is some pretty insane stuff the slice behavior you demonstrate there is well-de

calling articles about language features and/or their implementations a "smell" is some pretty insane stuff the slice behavior you demonstrate there is well-defined by the language spec, it's totally memory safe, it doesn't demonstrate memory corruption or anything like that go is probably the most successful new language since java, if you don't like it that's fine, but it's nonsensical to call its design decisions "wrong"