title: how to serialize/deserialize a map in go
body: <p>My instinct tells me that somehow it would have to be converted to a string or byte[] (which might even be the same things in Go?) and then saved to disk. </p>
  
  <p>I found this package (<a href="http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/gob/">http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/gob/</a>), but it seems like its just for structs?</p>