> 16k lines of obscure C, riddled with pointer magic and arcane memory manipulations? No thanks

Given the popularity of the library I'd imagine it's quite well tested. I also fail to understand why he attempts to port libshine from C to Go when he could just port the header files from LAME as FFI bindings instead. That should also ensure comparability with windows, as I'm sure such a library us also buildable on windows, given that ffmpeg uses it and ffmpeg works on windows.