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Many of your comments on this thread state that writing webapps in Go (SQL, etc) is not so difficult "once you know what you're doing." Could you elaborate on t

• unoti 13y ago
  Here's one possible example. At the top of this thread, there's a statement about how Go templates don't support inheritance-- embedding one template within another as Django and Jinja do[1]. I personally consider this a requirement, because the old school way of having headers and footers in separate templates is radically inferior. Go doesn't offer a clear simple way to do this in their builtin template library. But it turns out, it really is possible to do it, as described in this thread on Stack Exchange[2]. I bookmarked that so that I can boil it down into some simple-to-reuse code if I ever bite the bullet and start using Go for the presentation layer on a major website. What they're doing there is a cool technique, but it's not simple to use out of the box. 1. https://sites.google.com/site/usfcomputerscience/django-templates https://sites.google.com/site/usfcomputerscience/django-temp... 2. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11467731/is-it-possible-to-have-nested-templates-in-go-using-the-standard-library-googl http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11467731/is-it-possible-t...