The HotSpot JVM does indeed do escape analysis. The primary difference is that, in Go, you can put structs and arrays inside other structs. I tend to be skepti

The HotSpot JVM does indeed do escape analysis. The primary difference is that, in Go, you can put structs and arrays inside other structs. I tend to be skeptical of the claims that are often made that Go data structures have different GC-relevant characteristics from those of Java, or especially C#.