[beckler]

Not totally sure, but I think Gin is faster because it uses HttpRouter under the covers.

[dougbarrett]

And httprouter is a bit limited as far as what you can do with the url rules, understadibly. I've documented it here:

https://www.dougcodes.com/go-lang/gin-gonic-may-be-40x-faste...

and here:

https://www.dougcodes.com/go-lang/martini-to-gin-back-to-mar...

Negroni/Gorilla Mux seems to be a good combination for me, but Jeremy Saenz is coming out with a new mux that I'm interested in trying when it's released to see how it compares to Gorilla Mux.

[ch4s3]

Indeed it does. http://gin-gonic.github.io/gin/