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BLOG_TITLE is a personal blog at florinpatan.ro about programming. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Not use iris for your Go projects”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as a warning against the Iris Go web framework, citing its author's alleged history of rewriting git history, using code without attribution, and cheating on benchmarks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about programming and related things.
Most-linked posts?
- Not use iris for your Go projects9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-10-17
What Hacker News says?
There was some controversy with its primary maintainer a while ago, not sure how it's progressed since. I can't speak of the technical side, however. https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go/pull/1137 http://www.florinpatan.ro/2016/10/why-you-should-not-use-iri...
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on “Show HN: Goyave – Golang Web Framework”Submitted Not use iris for your Go projects as a story · 8 points
HN discussionDO NOT USE IRIS [1][2][3][4] The author of this framework, who calls himself Kataras, is very unethical. He fell into a big controversy with the management of his repositories, stealing several chunks of code from other popular projects without giving credits to their respective authors, and then using them to write benchmarks to make his own project look better than it is. He also spent several months creating bots…
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on “Ask HN: What is the current state of web frameworks in Golang?”Submitted Why you should not use iris for your go projects as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThey are using the Iris framework, the one the Go community doesn't recommend to use due to numerous instances where the package author would rewrite the history of the project. See [1][2]. [1] https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go/pull/1137 [2] http://www.florinpatan.ro/2016/10/why-you-should-not-use-iri... Besides, you don't really need a framework to develop programs for the Web in Go. It would be interesting to…
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on “Go vs .NET Core in terms of HTTP performance”Submitted How AWS Lambda works – if I'd implement it as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDon't use Iris: http://www.florinpatan.ro/2016/10/why-you-should-not-use-iri...
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on “Ask HN: Which web stack should I learn for personal projects?”Some information you should probably be aware of when it comes to Iris: http://www.florinpatan.ro/2016/10/why-you-should-not-use-iri...
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on “Ask HN: Which web stack should I learn for personal projects?”And considering the author of iris has apparently "cheated" on benchmarks before, I would be extra careful reading these benchmarks,since kataras is the author.... http://www.florinpatan.ro/2016/10/why-you-should-not-use-iri...
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on “Go vs. .NET Core in Terms of HTTP Performance”I would recommend avoiding iris-go, the author has a bad history of rewriting the git history, and using code without attribution, see this for more: http://www.florinpatan.ro/2016/10/why-you-should-not-use-iri...
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on “Goravel, Web framework inspired from Laravel in Golang”