The reason I will almost never use Go for web apps is because interaction with databases is limited (almost entirely) to raw queries. Maybe I'm spoiled by the l

The reason I will almost never use Go for web apps is because interaction with databases is limited (almost entirely) to raw queries. Maybe I'm spoiled by the likes of Active Record, Sequelize, Mini-mongo, Sql-alchemy, etc, but it's a huge drop in efficiency to spin my own SQL. There are plenty of ORMs and query builders available for golang, many of which have a very similar interface to AR. I personally use a query builder and let structs be in charge of reconstituting themselves from the db rows returned, and am quite happy with that tradeoff, in fact I prefer it to having objects magically instantiated behind the scenes as in AR. There's no need to restrict yourself to raw sql if you prefer a query builder of some kind or even an ORM (if you don't mind using reflection).