This is the direction I've moved to as well. I've used ROR and Clojure w/ heavyweight frontends in the past, but I eventually came around to the idea that I val

This is the direction I've moved to as well. I've used ROR and Clojure w/ heavyweight frontends in the past, but I eventually came around to the idea that I value Go w/ stdlib to avoid dependencies/framework churn, have painless deployments, and get extremely solid performance w/ minimal memory footprint out of the box without doing anything special.