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Is Go a good choice to create a CRUD web app? between the stdlib, gorilla toolking and the pg driver seems it wouldn't be so much of a pain, but the pg driver d

• jbooth 14y ago
  For just plain CRUD, you'll probably get where you want to go faster with Django or Ruby -- they get you up and running faster, and their template engines are more mature than anything in Go. Once you're beyond just plain CRUD to the point where the language you're using matters more than how fast you can get going with defaults, then you might like Go more (or less) than Ruby/Python.
• chimeracoder 14y ago
  I wrote the outline of one[0] a while back with gorilla and it wasn't too difficult. Be warned that some of the code is less-than-idiomatic, since I began it while I was still learning Go. There's definitely some refactoring that can be done, etc. However, as you can see, it's not too difficult to write a basic CRUD app with authentication, even if you're starting completely from scratch (which you don't have to; I did it more as a learning exercise). I disagree with jbooth; I find Go's templating language to be incredibly mature, and I also find it much easier to develop with gorilla than something like Flask, if for no other reason than the static compilation and incredibly thorough code analysis/other checking done at compile-time (unused lvalues, etc.) [0] https://github.com/chimeracoder/go-server-bootstrap https://github.com/chimeracoder/go-server-bootstrap