Go subtleties

FTA:

> Runes correspond to code points in Go, which are between 1 and 4 bytes long.

That's the dumbest thing I've read in this month. Why did they use the wrong word, sowing confusion¹, when any other programming language and the Unicode standard uses the correct expression "code point"?

¹ https://codepoints.net/runic already exists

> uses the correct expression "code point"

Actually no, these are Unicode scalars, not code points; they exclude the surrogate category.

I agree that rune is a very poor name for it. It both mistakes what runes actually are and clashes with the runic block. But C# has adopted the Rune name for some reason.

Rust simply calls these char, and OCaml uchar (unicode char), which are much better choices.

My bad, I just double-checked and Go did the dumb thing again: They are indeed representing full code points rather than scalars like everyone else.