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> By the way, using Go as an example is a joke since -- from the early Go bootcamp I attended in 2014, the best practice has been to use a 3rd-party http router (these days: gorilla? httprouter? chi? etc) instead of the one provided in the standard library.

You're mistaken. Using a third party router doesn't lock you into a particular subset of the ecosystem. E.g., I tend to use the Gorilla router by default, but I can use it with any middleware that implements the standard http.Handler interface.