6. Manipulating Strings
C was created in America, back when it was fashionable to pretend that the rest of the world didn’t exist, so it used 7-bit ASCII1 characters to represent strings.
Go is more recent, and since then most technology companies in the USA have discovered that it’s quite a good idea to support other languages, mostly so you can sell things to people in other countries. Go uses UTF-8. This is entirely unsurprising, as UTF-8 was originally designed (on a diner placemat) by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, two of the designers of Go.
Go strings are slightly higher-level than C strings, and there are some important differences. The most obvious is that the Go string type is immutable, like C constant strings and Java strings. Although ...
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