Web Development in Go

&gt;Compared with Ruby, PHP, Python, or Javascript, you&#x27;re going to get great memory and latency performance, and libraries that do what you expect.<p>Isn&#x27;t picking a language to solve memory&#x2F;latency issues a pre-optimization? Also I&#x27;m not sure if one can argue that libraries from one particular language are better at doing what you expect than libraries from another language.<p>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m trying to understand how much of what people are saying about Go is hype. People are telling me things like you can cross-compile on different platforms and output a binary, but I fail to see how these things are important for most API&#x27;s and web apps.

I personally prefer whatever language&#x2F;framework gets value out the door quickest on the side of handling HTTP requests (e.g. rails or laravel for the front-facing items) and something like Golang for plumbing or work that requires speed&#x2F;CPU optimization - queue workers, file manipulation, data streaming, whatever.<p>Golang (and NodeJS) both feel really kludgy to me when getting into things like handling form submissions (validating input, redirecting with error&#x2F;success messages, and all those tedious things that the popular frameworks abstract away the best they can).

NaCl&#x27;s secretbox for encrypting the session cookie - nice

What&#x27;s lacking in the HTTP library? The stock router isn&#x27;t great, but it&#x27;s pluggable. Also, serving static files has never been a problem http.StripPrefix(&quot;&#x2F;tmp&quot;, http.FileServer(http.Dir(&quot;&#x2F;tmp&quot;))) (or something like that, I forget the details). I guess I didn&#x27;t find it very hard to get into web development in Go with the standard library; I&#x27;m not sure there&#x27;s enough friction to justify diving into third party libraries. :&#x2F;

What about templating, middlewares, security, authentication, authorization? Do I need to glue this from custom libraries to the web server myself every time I start a new project?

Is the flash message setup a standard way implement that type of functionality?? Encrypting the cookie with a key that is delivered client side anyway seems like it doesn&#x27;t buy you anything.

How good are the ORMs options in Go? One of the reasons Rails is my go-to for web development is how easy Active Record it makes configuration and changing databases.

On the subject of Go web development, I&#x27;ll plug one of my favorite libraries: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goji.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goji.io</a>. It&#x27;s a super-fast HTTP router that supports middleware and pattern matching.

Does go have any advantage over other compiled languages, like say, swift?<p>For example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vapor.codes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vapor.codes</a>

&gt; You should write your next web server in Go<p>Are people writing their own web servers these days? is that a thing? Seems like everyone uses nginx.