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Reminds me of a previous discussion about Go being more "mature" than node.js, where i said having someone like Pike on board gives you more than 30 years of "maturity". I'm pretty sure you wouldn't find those leaky UTF encoding handling in Go.

Well, Node builds atop an established language, while Go is a new development. It's probably easier to build sane Unicode semantics into a new language than to change the JS spec.

Since Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are the guys who came up with UTF-8, you'd expect them to write decent Unicode encoding for Go. It would be surprising if they didn't.

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