How to reverse a string in Go?

Question

How can we reverse a simple string in Go?

Answer 1

//Reverse reverses string using strings.Builder. It's about 3 times faster
//than the one with using a string concatenation
func Reverse(in string) string {
    var sb strings.Builder
    runes := []rune(in)
    for i := len(runes) - 1; 0 <= i; i-- {
        sb.WriteRune(runes[i])
    }
    return sb.String()
}


//Reverse reverses string using string
func Reverse(in string) (out string) {
    for _, r := range in {
        out = string(r) + out
    }
    return
}

BenchmarkReverseStringConcatenation-8   1000000 1571 ns/op  176 B/op    29 allocs/op
BenchmarkReverseStringsBuilder-8        3000000 499 ns/op   56 B/op 6 allocs/op

Using strings.Builder is about 3 times faster than using string concatenation