Introduction 🔗In my previous posts, we discussed Go’s syntax and how it allows developers to write C-like code for modern development. While we will continue to explore the language specifications in detail, another aspect of Go that stands out is its modern standard library. The Go standard library is simply one of the best—if not the best—I have ever used. Many quality-of-life libraries and tools that might require third-party dependencies in other languages are available out of the box in Go’s standard library.

What is Garbage Collection? 🔗Unlike low-level languages like C, where memory management (allocation and freeing of memory) is handled by developers, high-level languages like JavaScript manage memory automatically. JavaScript abstracts the key concepts of allocating and freeing memory by implementing various algorithms. The process of identifying memory that has been allocated but is no longer required by the program, referred to as garbage, is known as garbage collection. Garbage Collection Algorithms 🔗There are many garbage collection algorithms, such as Mark and Sweep, Reference Counting, Generational Garbage Collection, and Mark-Compact, among others.