[bsaul]

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.

[ygra]

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.

[pjscott]

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.