>Which is needed anyway if you're doing any FFI.

>I didn't know Go had a standard.

Not really. You could implement a Go compiler that as a FFI API using regular Go strings, or byte slices if you wanted. I believe the gccgo compiler does this.Then you're completely ignorant. One of the reasons that Go is great is that it has an actual standard that fits on a few pages, unlike most other modern languages which either have no spec or a fucking multi-volume encyclopedia collection.