How to reverse a string in Go?

Question

How can we reverse a simple string in Go?

Answer 1

The following two methods run faster than the fastest solution that preserve combining characters, though that's not to say I'm missing something in my benchmark setup.

//input string s
bs := []byte(s)
var rs string
for len(bs) > 0 {
    r, size := utf8.DecodeLastRune(bs)
    rs += fmt.Sprintf("%c", r)
    bs = bs[:len(bs)-size]
} // rs has reversed string

Second method inspired by this

//input string s
bs := []byte(s)
cs := make([]byte, len(bs))
b1 := 0
for len(bs) > 0 {
    r, size := utf8.DecodeLastRune(bs)
    d := make([]byte, size)
    _ = utf8.EncodeRune(d, r)
    b1 += copy(cs[b1:], d)
    bs = bs[:len(bs) - size]
} // cs has reversed bytes