Ask HN: Go net/http vs. Django. What do I pick?

1 pointstinderliker7y ago2 comments

Hi HN,

I am fairly versatile with both Django and Go, and built web applications using both for other people, but I am permanently crippled in the decision to pick one for my own project.

Django is so easy to build something and deploy, but I am not happy with its performance on a single box, and also all the crap it comes along with.

I love writing Go code and its performance, but I don't like the amount of time it takes to develop something in Go which can be done in a minute in Django (especially the DB related stuff. It is so easy with Django, but historically been crippled with performance problems)

I frequently see myself rewriting APIs from Django to Go and never shipping something by this handicap.

I believe this is because of not able to decide on tradeoffs. Can someone who has used both help me decide which one to pick?

TIA

2 comments

ankurdhama7y ago

Try https://gobuffalo.io/en. This is a web app development framework for Go. May be it will give you best of both worlds.

tinderlikerOP7y ago

The reason I pick Django for others is because I don't pay for the server costs. If servers are free, I would use Django myself..

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