While you are right, you get a lot from the builtin stuff, a potential user coming from another language does not want to go via the chores of constructing their own router. Or other helpers. Or if they are used to ORMs, getting back to good old SQL will be a major problem. And so on and so forth.
So the problem is: to whom do you advocate the language to, and what do they expect to make them happy. If we keep saying: you don't need a framework, just use the standard library, then there's a single logical conclusion that we'll have: a lot of potential users of the language will be driven to alternatives. Drive enough of them and Go will be just a niche language, that is slowly replaced by others. Take the Rust community for example, and look at this: https://rocket.rs When we say: use the standard library then people see that as an alternative, then what do you think the majority will do? I'm not saying that we should be against recommending the standard library, by all means, it's one of the best assets of the language. But maybe it's time we should think about saying: Start with this framework, insert framework name here, and then, as you gain more Go knowledge, or you are curious about how it's done, look into these packages, insert collection of packages here, and finally, do not discount the standard library, as it is very powerful and it can do a lot out of the box without introducing further dependencies into your code. On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 1:36:29 PM UTC, matthe...@gmail.com wrote: > > Here’s a third vote for the standard library. > https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/ + https://golang.org/pkg/html/template/ > are already effectively a web framework. > > Matt > > On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 3:15:25 AM UTC-6, Florin Pățan wrote: >> >> Big plus one for Buffalo. Out of the frameworks I've seen in Go so far, >> Buffalo tries its best to stay close to the spirit of Go while delivering >> all the power to the user in an idiomatic manner. Do give it a try. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
