> Rob Pike seems to be doing a kind of programming unlike what most developers do. I fill, empty, filter and analyze values in containers all the time, and I su

> Rob Pike seems to be doing a kind of programming unlike what most developers do. I fill, empty, filter and analyze values in containers all the time, and I suspect I'm not the only one. I don't think you are disagreeing, there is a reason Go has built in containers like slices and maps: they are very useful. Rob said he spends very little time struggling with those issues, it doesn't mean he doesn't work with containers, just that (in Go) it is not a struggle, it is rare for you to have to write your own containers, and when you have to it is not particularly difficult (compared to eg., C).