[jerf]

Good to hear. I hope it's something all new languages have going forward, because like I mentioned in my extended post it's almost all about setting the tone correctly early in the standard library & culture, rather than any sort of "language feature" Go had.

As mostly-a-network engineer it's a major pet peeve of mine when I have to step back into some environment where everything works with strings. I can just feel the memory screaming.

[pjmlp]

You mean just like XML-RPC and JSON-RPC (sorry REST), work?

Because the best way to contribute to global warming is to waste CPU cycles serializing and deserializing data structures into XML and JSON, and parsing them as well.