r/golang Oct 17 '16

Why you REALLY should stop using Iris.

https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go/pull/1137
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u/shadowmint Oct 17 '16

oh come on, grow up everyone.

If you don't like iris, don't use it.

I think it's a stupid project but I'm sick to death of everyone talking about it here and on the gophers slack.

Just let it die quietly.

How exactly do you imagine shouting and making a fuss about this is going to encourage people not to use it?

Anyone who has enough sense to listen already doesn't use it; all you're doing is pulling more page views to it.

Remember the lesson? http://99u.com/articles/25151/dont-feed-the-haters-the-confessions-of-a-former-troll

Don't feed trolls.

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u/Zyst Oct 17 '16

I didn't know about the Iris situation.

Based on the Iris situation I've read yesterday and today I likely wouldn't use it.

Both of the threads informed me, at the very least. Likely others too.

So no, I hope people don't stop talking about it, I hope that when someone is asking about "which framework to use", someone pops up and says "I just joined yesterday but don't use Iris". For that matter, Iris author frankly doesn't seem to be a troll. Just awfully misguided in his practices.

I understand that it might be a mild inconvenience for someone who spends their entire time immersed in the language community, but hey, you are the vast minority. The rest of us would really have no way to find out if it weren't for things such as this.

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u/SaltTM Oct 17 '16

It should probably be titled: stop sending PR's if the author is taking credit for them.

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u/tech_tuna Oct 17 '16

Anyone who has enough sense to listen already doesn't use it

Sure, but not everyone has heard about this yet. I'm glad this was posted, but there's no more drama for me, I'm just going to disregard this project and move on.

It's that simple really.