How to efficiently concatenate strings in Go?

In Go, a string is a primitive type, which means it is read-only, and every manipulation of it will create a new string.

So if I want to concatenate strings many times without knowing the length of the resulting string, what’s the best way to do it?

Beginning with Go 1.10 there is a strings.Builder. A Builder is used to efficiently build a string using Write methods. It minimizes memory copying. The zero value is ready to use.

package main

import (
    "strings"
    "fmt"
)

func main() {
    var str strings.Builder

    for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {
        str.WriteString("a")
    }

    fmt.Println(str.String())
}