I don't use an ORM currently, just plain 'ol SQL queries. And in actuality I prefer it SOO much more. Like originally I was using Hibernate with the Java JPA, but I found it just got in the way a lot and the dependencies where finicky. Where as in Go and raw SQL I know EXACTLY what it's asking for and can pre-compose my queries externally. Any changes to the tables I have to make, as in renaming or adding columns, is just a quick change to the SQL query itself. And if needed, 1 line added to the Struct definition.

Also I'm more of a custom approach person which makes me very productive with Go. It's allows me to have laser focus on my needs instead of hooking up and reading docs and every little integration feature the framework has. And in result, I don't have dependency on a monolithic framework which could very well break everything in it's next release.

And finally, Go will build to binary for any-platform. So I can pre-build for the ARM processors, or Linux, or whatever else on Windows and just ship the binaries for server updates instead of managing make scripts and dependency resolution and blah blah blah. And if I wanted to I could sell the API "program" and sleep a little better about the IP contained in it (yes I know de-compilers exist). I could do this with C++ as well, but that's a whole 'nother ball game when it comes to tracking down memory leaks and segfaults.