Go Programming, any of you using it?
I have recently decided that I want to learn Go and more specifically a backend framework to go along with it. Any of you using GO and some web framework for it? If so what framework and how did you learn it? I'm sure it will be easy for me to learn the language, but I have no idea which framework to use they all sound reasonable. What framework do you think is easiest to learn? Thanks.
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My business Packetriot (https://packetriot.com) is completely written in Go.
Packetriot provides an application tunneling service, e.g. it will expose a local HTTP/S or TCP server to the Internet for you. Lots of (fun) network programming that Go is amazing at. So my core networking system are written in Go.
My website backend is also written in Go plus my command line tools (clients) are written in Go as well.
I don't use a web framework, I rolled my own. I have my own web application boilerplate I use for all projects, gives me a lot of basic features all web apps need. I would suggest you check our Gorilla: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/
Since Go can cross-compile to so many different platforms it's an amazing language to write client software or libraries that can serve many different operating systems and architectures.
These are all the OS/archs we support and each are basically a different target in our client Makefile:
https://packetriot.com/downloads
I could really Go on... (pun intended) on the virtues of working with the language. I've leave at sharing that the Go community is pretty awesome and growing, there is lots of opensource to work with and this language is well established now and will be with us for a long time.
I haven't particularly used golang in any of my projects. But it's one of my learning bucketlist items. I heard that gin might be a great framework for golang.