> All the other systems out there require tons of tools, and lock you into doing things their way. Nothing is stopping you from writing everything yourself in

> All the other systems out there require tons of tools, and lock you into doing things their way. Nothing is stopping you from writing everything yourself in any other language. You can do the same in Java or .NET. Then you start finding out you need routing, validation, security, DB access, etc. which golang lacks and ends up making it much more verbose than other mature frameworks.