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> Go’s String is a char* that behaves like a char[] when copied.

Uhh, no. A go string is (effectively) a pointer to an immutable string of characters. When you do a = b, both a and b point to the same string (i.e. each is its own string struct, containing a pointer to the exact same array of character data).

But if you try to get a byte[] from it, THEN it makes a copy.



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