What type of memory is managed by the garbage collector in the system?

In memory-managed systems like Go, the garbage collector (GC) manages the dynamic memory allocated on the heap.

That is, memory allocated for objects and data structures during program execution is automatically tracked and freed by the garbage collector when there are no more references to these objects.

Stack memory, where local variables and function calls are stored, is usually managed automatically without GC involvement.

Thus, the garbage collector in Go specifically manages the heap — the area of memory for dynamically allocated objects.