Golang basics struct and new() keyword

Question

I was learning golang, and as I was going through the chapter that describes Structures, I came across different ways to initialize structures.

p1 := passport{}         


        

Answer 1

All the new keyword does is basically create a instance of the type you want. However instead of returning the plain declaration of the type, it references it and return the acutal memory address of that type in the program process heap.