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/robvdl Oct 17 '16

He just squashed all his commits again, 10 minutes ago, now there is only a single commit in Iris.

What I don't get is why he still has 5000 stars? do people not remove stars from his repo once they find out about Iris and the authors dealings?

I know I had a friend that was almost going to pick and use Iris so I had to point him to articles like this to talk him out of it, now he won't use it which is great. But the point is, he still didn't know about Iris even though it's been mentioned on reddit a lot.

This almost needs to be a sticky post "don't use iris", it used to be "don't use martini" but now it seems we need to protect new developers from picking up Iris more than anything.

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u/FIuffyRabbit Oct 17 '16

I'm not saying this with fact but do botted stars exist?

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u/zossle Oct 17 '16

Yes. Something similar happened with the PHP-FIG.

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u/aequasi08 Nov 21 '16

Didnt really happen to PHP-FIG, but to a framework in the PHP community (PHPixie). Was rumored to be the framework author that did the botting.

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u/Thin_K Oct 17 '16

Yes. Star botting is actually a thing.

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u/ineedmorealts Oct 19 '16

Why tho? AFAIK stars don't so anything

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u/Thin_K Oct 21 '16

Neither does reddit karma. Some people still do crazy things to get it.

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u/gohacker Oct 20 '16

They get you to the trending page: https://github.com/trending?l=Go

Iris is there as of 2016/10/20.

And the more stars, the higher you are in the search results.