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The post discusses popular Go libraries that the author chooses to avoid, highlighting their drawbacks, especially in larger projects. It covers sqlmock, GORM, and gorilla mux, providing reasons like brittleness in tests, complexity in schema migrations, and performance bottlenecks. Alternative approaches such as integration testing, using sqlx, and sticking to Go’s standard net/http package are suggested for more maintainable and scalable solutions.

Go libs I don't use but are popular

<p>I’ve had similar experiences with GORM and gorilla mux - for most projects, sticking to Go’s standard library and tools like <code>sqlx</code> has made my life easier and my code more maintainable 💡.</p>


<p>I dont understand why people use GORM. I guess when you come from other languages you think you need this but you don’t. Uptrace’s Bun (bun.uptrace.dev) will do the job and is much lighter weight.</p>
