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Gin is criticized as an overly complex Go web framework with massive bloat compared to the standard library. The framework requires over 1 million lines of code and 55MB of dependencies to accomplish what net/http does in 25,000 lines. Its API design violates Unix philosophy with enormous interfaces (gin.Context has 100+ methods), creates unnecessary abstraction layers that obscure control flow, and makes migration away nearly impossible once adopted. The article demonstrates how Gin's complexity provides no real benefit over using Go's standard library directly, while significantly increasing binary size, compilation time, and cognitive overhead.

Gin is a very bad software library

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I always hated that it took you away from the standard library so you could not use other middleware.

and the documentation is lacking. The only thing I like about it is the pretty command line I see once a year.

Gin is not my favorite alcohol either!

Is stdlib the best option we have?