Doubt with the defer in GOLang

package main
import "fmt"

func main(){
x:=1;

if x==1{
    fmt.Print("Hello  ");
    return 
}
defer fmt.Print("Bye");

}
Why the output of the program is not Hello Bye. As defer statement should be executed after returning it.Please Explain?

Comments

[Pranjal Verma]

Program flow exits before even registering a defer call onto the stack.
Try putting defer statement before if condition.

[BlazingBits]

This is likely the problem.

The compiler is ignoring anything after the return, if you move the defer above your return statement is should work as expected.

[3129 Abhinav Kumar]

Thanks @blazingbits for your reply.

[3129 Abhinav Kumar]

Thanks @pranj010 for reply.