"MVC" is at least a half dozen different patterns at this point, and at least one - the one the closeparen is talking about, rendering responses to incoming req

"MVC" is at least a half dozen different patterns at this point, and at least one - the one the closeparen is talking about, rendering responses to incoming requests out parts of a data store - is pretty common in Go. What's different is that the "model" is often e.g. a bare sql.DB and not an object repository, and the "view" is a template called directly by the controller, but "MVC" - even this kind, which isn't the original kind - doesn't have to be an auto-wired DI interface-laden mess. PHP and Java just made it that way.