> When you said Revel is "heavy" [...] It provides nearly everything, likely including things you don't even need. It's likely that a lot of the parts included

> When you said Revel is "heavy" [...] It provides nearly everything, likely including things you don't even need. It's likely that a lot of the parts included won't be needed by a "typical" web application, and if you want to do things another way you'll need to spend some time switching those components out. To be fair though, having "everything" can be a big plus, especially when you don't know what you might need (or have the time to glue things together). I don't know how tightly coupled the components are in Revel, but if it's like Django, some things are easy to add/remove (middleware), and others are much harder to work around (ORM, views, etc.).