Golang in sixty seconds — Count occurrences in a string

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Did you ever want to quickly count how many times the letter s appears in Mississippi? Well Go has your back:

strings.Count("Mississippi", "s") // 4

One of the most common code golf challenges I’ve seen is to count the occurrences of a letter in a string and do something with the information. Let’s change every letter the word “Mississippi”…