Yeah I am use to using buffer for strings coming from Java so searched docs for it from the get go, and after seeing the solutions look at the cheap oneliner in code to see what it was doing if anything and nope, just uses the string builder instead of bytes but affectivly the same iterative loop on a count. The only heads up thing was that it preemptively grew the size ahead of time so that if you were looping a large number of times it would not have to resize. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/strings/strings.go#L533-L536