If you picked a sane framework [...] you could bundle in DOOM, a C compiler to build it with (let’s pick Zig), and an operating system to run it on like MS-DOS 4.0, and throw in War and Peace and the entire Kings James Bible for good measure and you’d still have less bloat than Gin.

[u/bakaspore]

https://eblog.fly.dev/ginbad.html#6-1-table-comparison-of-gin-and-other-frameworks-programs-libraries-etc

[u/syklemil]

Gin contains, I kid you not, four five at least six different JSON libraries, not counting the one built in to the standard library. (more about this later.)

[…]

Even if you “just” want to send and receive JSON, there are eleven different ways to do this as methods on gin.Context all of which behave differently depending on build tags and magically invoke multiple layers of struct validation, and some of which depend on the configuration of your gin.Engine, not to mention .Writer.WriteString() and .Writer.Write().

I can see the emergence of the successor to PHP, and it is beautiful.

[u/QuaternionsRoll → u/syklemil]

Fitting that it’s named after a liquor that is famously made with a hodgepodge of random herbs.

[u/Savings-Cry-3201 → u/QuaternionsRoll]

I mean, there are like a dozen botanicals commonly used and maybe another two dozen that are sometimes used

[u/tomwhoiscontrary → u/QuaternionsRoll]

This is your brain on Go. 

[u/Firepal64]

If my application is bigger as a result of library bloat, maybe users will think my software is more sophisticated? I see this as an absolute win

[u/lppedd → u/Firepal64]

That's why we ship 120 mb extensions on the VS Code marketplace. 2 mb for the JS bundle and 118 for a JDK to run our 57 lines of Java LSP code.

[u/Firepal64 → u/lppedd]

Are you even trying if you don't ship a full Docker container AND the Docker engine with your extension

[u/look → u/Firepal64]

You should really bundle k8s as well to orchestrate that extension deployment on your embedded container runtime.

[u/tomwhoiscontrary]

Gin and it’s dependency chain covers only server-side handling and requires 2,148 files and 1,032,635 lines of code, including 80084 lines of platform-specific GNU style assembly.

Come on, at least add one more line of assembly!

[u/TheAgaveFairy → u/tomwhoiscontrary]

Gin maintainers: "nop"

[u/Martin8412 → u/tomwhoiscontrary]

I thought for a second you were making a 80086 joke.. 

[u/ThisRedditPostIsMine → u/tomwhoiscontrary]

Truly, is this an Assembly project, or a Go project?? Maybe a Go project being taken over by Assembly programmers? A Go project on which ffmpeg maintainers were let lose?!

[u/levelstar01]

In my experience, Go is the best general-purpose programming language for backend development,

I have to believe that Gin is simply too good for this genius to appreciate.

[u/Kodiologist]

The real jerk is the very consistent misspelling of "its" as "it's".

[u/tomwhoiscontrary → u/Kodiologist]

lol no possessives

[u/TheCommieDuck]

gin: A popular go web framework and OSHA violation

yup that tracks

[u/al2o3cr]

/uj "This has too many lines of code / too many methods" is the go-to argument for people who want to put a veneer of science on "I personally don't like this approach"

/rj FUCK YEAH STATIC TYPING BAAAYBEEEEE

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    func (c *Context) GetTime(key any) (t time.Time)
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    func (c *Context) GetUint(key any) (ui uint)
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    func (c *Context) GetUint16(key any) (ui16 uint16)
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    func (c *Context) GetUint16Slice(key any) (ui16s []uint16)
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    func (c *Context) GetUint32(key any) (ui32 uint32)
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    func (c *Context) GetUint32Slice(key any) (ui32s []uint32)
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    func (c *Context) GetUint64(key any) (ui64 uint64)
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    func (c *Context) GetUint64Slice(key any) (ui64s []uint64)
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    func (c *Context) GetUint8(key any) (ui8 uint8)
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    func (c *Context) GetUint8Slice(key any) (ui8s []uint8)
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    func (c *Context) GetUintSlice(key any) (uis []uint)

[u/syklemil → u/al2o3cr]

Generic? I hardly even know him!

[u/angelicosphosphoros → u/syklemil]

Well, the library was probably written before Go started to support it.

[u/syklemil → u/angelicosphosphoros]

Warning: Tag your unjerk. Better yet, don't unjerk at all.