Congrats on the traction you’ve got with this project. We used Gin back in 2016 for a while. I honestly don’t understand those Go devs who claim that the standard library is sufficient for building a serious API — there’s still so much boilerplate, and you end up writing your own mini-framework anyway.

The main reason we don’t use it anymore is that the default handlers don’t return the error type, which means error handling and HTTP status tracking get tricky and non-idiomatic as soon as your handlers start calling functions that can fail. It’s essentially a function coloring problem.

One could argue that HTTP status is a totally separate thing from normal errors, and I get that perspective, but that’s a significant ergonomic hit to take for the sake of philosophical purity.