[tptacek]

I think 80% of this is people coming to Go from other languages (everybody comes to Go from some other language) and trying to bring what they think was best about that language to Go. To an extent unusual in languages I've worked in, it's idiomatic in Go to get by with what's in the standard library. If you're new to Go, that's what you should do: use standard logging, just use net/http and its router, use standard Go tests (without an assertion library), &c.

I'm not saying you need to stay there, but if your project environment feels like Rails or Flask or whatever in your first month or two, you may have done something wrong.

[ljm]

Go these days has had a good few stdlib improvements that reduce your reliance on third party libraries even further.

The http router now handles path parameters and methods, so you might just pull in a library to run a middleware stack.

There is structured logging in the stdlib, which works with the existing log package for an easy transition.

The thing I’ve struggled with is structuring a project nicely, what with the way modules work, especially for services that aren’t exactly ‘micro’, and especially when the module and workspace system is still pretty unintuitive.

[Attummm]

I completely agree with the comment, except for the Flask example. Django would be a better example.

Both Flask and Golang's http package have simplicity and minimalism as their philosophy. Of course, most mature projects will eventually diverge from that. But both can start out as a single file with just a few lines of code.