It doesn't. Go provides stack allocation and heap allocation. Stack allocation is the default (except for some always-on-heap things), and stack allocation is s

It doesn't. Go provides stack allocation and heap allocation. Stack allocation is the default (except for some always-on-heap things), and stack allocation is silently converted to heap allocation when you take the address of an object. Go's memory management story is basically the same as Java's with the "use escape analysis to place objects on the stack" flag enabled. (To be fair, there is one extra thing that Go provides: the ability to allocate objects inside other objects.)