With the use of Golang receiver functions, you don’t have to mess around with classes or deal with inheritance. Go is very similar to C due to the presence of pointers, static typing, and many other things. But Go is the modern language and so it has many new features baked in it, and Function Receiver is one of it. Go is not an Object-Oriented Programming Language.

Golang receiver function example

Function Receiver sets a method on variables that we create. This seems weird at first, but when you get the example, it will be clear as crystal.

Let’s create a  custom type in Golang and then assign that type to a variable. Now, you can set a method on that variable, and that method is Receiver function.

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