Is memory management allowed in the Go programming language?

In the Go language, explicit memory management like in C or C++ is not provided. Go uses an automatic garbage collector that independently frees unused memory. Programmers do not need to explicitly allocate or free memory, which reduces the likelihood of memory management errors.

However, in Go, you can work with pointers, which allow referencing memory areas, but the memory freeing is handled by the runtime environment.

Example of using a pointer in Go:

package main
import "fmt"

func main() {
    var a int = 42
    var p *int = &a // pointer to a
    fmt.Println(*p) // outputs 42
}