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0 pointstredre31y ago0 comments

> Almost everything you listed already exists in the standard library.

That's a bold faced lie. In the list, the only things provided by Go are:

- routing: http.ServeMux has a router but until recently it was usually not used in real applications due to very limited capabilities (they finally added proper patterns in 1.22 which, in my view, finally makes it good enough).

- template: it's not even close to laravel's blade capabilities, but yes Go has good enough templating for most tasks.

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ayuhito1y ago

> routing, middleware

net/http (even middlewares are just http.HandleFunc)

> database connections

We were using database/sql for the longest of times before switching to pgx since we wanted some convenience functions.

> email sending

net/mail gets you far enough unless you want to scale it.

> logging

log/slog (which is actually production grade compared to log/log)

> view template rendering

text/template, but I also think Laravel is a better choice if that’s your main focus.

Others either need an experimental standard library package (e.g. golang.org/x/crypto/argon2 for stuff like authentication) or finally need third party dependencies. DI is not enforced like other frameworks, but an extremely common pattern in Go.

At this point, do I really want to bring out a whole framework just for the last few requirements?

9dev1y ago

It’s like you’re saying, „get a Raspberry Pi instead of an iPhone, it can do the same things!“

Go is Turing complete, sure it can do all things Laravel can. But the whole point is that with a proper full-Stack framework, you’ll get everything in a single, maintained, tested, streamlined, coherent, and documented bundle.

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