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Zero-Copy in Go: Why magic is an antipattern, and: performance is observable behavior.

What would you prefer?

I do think it is criminal this is not documented (https://pkg.go.dev/io#Copy), but I think io.Copy is fine as an API.

it is documented by saying it calls ReadFrom or WriteTo

Sure, but it could be more explicit. See Rust for how it should be done.