Dumpster diving the Go garbage collectorPrincipal Engineer @ New Relic, Founding Engineer @ Pixie Labs Go is a garbage collected language. This makes writing Go simpler, because you can spend less time worrying about managing the lifetime of allocated objects. Memory management is definitely easier in Go than it is in, say, C++. But it’s also not an area we as Go developers can totally ignore, either. Understanding how Go allocates and
