And an in-progress proposal to make these various "bubble" functions have consistent semantics: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/76477

(As an aside, the linked blog series is great, but if you're interested in new Go features, I've found it really helpful to also subscribe to https://go.dev/issue/33502 to get the weekly proposal updates straight from the source. Reading the debates on some of these proposals provides a huge level of insight into the evolution of Go.)

Go has the best support for cryptography of any language