A big new concept in Go is that methods can have value receivers or pointer receivers. In C++ and Java, there is no distinction. Plus, method calls automaticall

A big new concept in Go is that methods can have value receivers or pointer receivers. In C++ and Java, there is no distinction. Plus, method calls automatically deref pointers. I think it took me a day to realize this when my code wasn't compiling. That, and goroutines + channels (especially blocking behavior).