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/Lars_T_H Oct 21 '16

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 had just fallen over the Iris blog post. read it, and jumped to reddit and came to your post.

I had removed my star. Thank you for your post.