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by chrsig 2018 days ago
It's worth noting that the go1 compatibility promise[1] allows for breaking compatibility in the name of security issues:

>Security. A security issue in the specification or implementation may come to light whose resolution requires breaking compatibility. We reserve the right to address such security issues.

If the go team decides that this issue is worth a breaking change is another question entirely.

[1]https://golang.org/doc/go1compat