It is actually very easy/simple. Imagine a piece of Java code that calls "new Object()". I don't program in Go, but essentially, the VM would create a temporary

It is actually very easy/simple. Imagine a piece of Java code that calls "new Object()". I don't program in Go, but essentially, the VM would create a temporary variable x := MakeObject(typename = "Object"). Then if that's assigned somewhere, the VM would store the record. When things go out of scope, the GC collects.