Here's a great blog post by the author of Martini about why, after he had gained experience in Go, he came to realize that Martini isn't very idiomatic: https:/

Here's a great blog post by the author of Martini about why, after he had gained experience in Go, he came to realize that Martini isn't very idiomatic: https://codegangsta.io/blog/2014/05/19/my-thoughts-on-martini/ https://codegangsta.io/blog/2014/05/19/my-thoughts-on-martin... tl;dr - Martini doesn't have a strict, type-safe API. Overuse of reflection leads to a small performance loss but a much larger, much more important cognitive tax.