I will say that you may get side eyes from a subset of the Go community for not using the standard library, and especially using an ORM - I say "fuck 'em" and that if the tools work for you, that's great. But there's a (vocal majority/minority) that is quite keen on not using some of these tools/libraries that you'd use in other ecosystems and it can be a bit sucky as someone new to the Go ecosystem to be told "🤓👆🏼 we don't actually do it that way"
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Jamie Tanna
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