What happens if you start a goroutine and call panic within it?

If a panic is called in a goroutine, this panic will be local to that goroutine and will lead to its abrupt termination if not handled (recover).

Important:

• A panic in one goroutine will not stop other goroutines or terminate the entire program unless it occurs in the main goroutine.
• To prevent the entire program from crashing, use defer with recover inside the goroutine to catch the panic.

Example:

 go func() {
    defer func() {
        if r := recover(); r != nil {
            fmt.Println("Panic caught in goroutine:", r)
        }
    }()
    panic("something went wrong")
}()

Without recover, the panic will terminate this goroutine, but others will continue to run.