Not very idiomatic go code

[jsimnz]

No negatively, the code so far is awesome, however its not very idiomatic.

So far it's just a collection of functions. Idiomatic go code is very modular in its use of interfaces, structs, and attached methods, especially the encoding packages.

Take a look at some of the builtin encoding package (ie http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/gob).

No need for any drastic changes atm, functionality is the most important, but for the sake of maintainability and outside contributions we should look into a slight re-organization.