I started with Gorilla due to its helpers with cookies. Then Martini came along and I had the same opinion as you, but soon realized that there are some nice ut

I started with Gorilla due to its helpers with cookies. Then Martini came along and I had the same opinion as you, but soon realized that there are some nice utilities that help common scenarios. I always think to myself that those nice utilities that I would have to build each time myself will some day bite me in the butt when they have abstracted too far from the standard http request and response. I sometimes have to write in C# MVC, which is a poor copy of the Rails framework. It's such a nightmare to do things in a way the framework did not intend. I now remind myself that there are no free gifts when it comes to web frameworks.