[zchrykng]

> ... Go standard library is fully-featured enough that it can be considered a framework in its own right...

Maybe compared to writing a server in C/C++... ORM doesn't exist in the standard library. Templating is okay. Auth doesn't exist.

[zadokshi]

People choose go to escape the world of bloated ORM tools.

SQL sprinkled with a little bit of prudent caching works pretty well in go.