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Do you use web frameworks in Go?

3 pointsby metaculusabout 9 years ago
As per this blog post, http://bit.ly/1oxZLMD, do you usually use a web framework in Go? Or do you rather use packages?

2 comments

znpyabout 9 years ago
I write my small web applications using the Gin framework, I feel no shame in this, but I partially agree with the link you shared.<p>But, quite frankly:<p>- I like that gin does some of the work for me.<p>- I like that I have to write a bit less code, while basically keeping all of the semantic<p>- I like that I can access the Request and ResponseWriter structs via the gin.Context struct.<p>I dislike (or opinions I share):<p>- Well yes, sometime things break and you have to a bit more time on the problem<p>- Sometimes new features come out and you will have to wait for or framework developers, or even patch it yourself (all things that actually keep you from writing your code)<p>- Sometimes development of the framework take a path you just don&#x27;t like.<p>- Sometime you find that things could just be done better, but developers disagree and you can&#x27;t fix this problem without forking and ending up with ANOTHER micro-framework.<p>In the end, I am still okay with going with the gin framework.<p>I feel no special love for gin, but it is okay.<p>What I would really, really love is something like Grails (in terms of development speed), but in Go.
brudgersabout 9 years ago
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