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how easy is to use GO with other frameworks, let's say PHP? Would it be possible to write an application that uses PHP for some tasks, so you can benefit from the speed of GO and the the maturity of PHP?

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You'll be better off writing raw PHP without classes than using Go. Go performances are raw Go. As soon as you add any framework to the party , the perfs are falling. see the gorilla test which is a Go framework.

Where are the Gorilla benchmarks? I only see raw Go for all 4 benchmarks.

Gorilla is a toolkit, not a framework. It's nice, but it doesn't do all that much beyond the standard library. To me, Go+Gorilla vs raw Go is not similar to, say, a PHP framework vs raw PHP.

(I know what Gorilla is, I've contributed to it :D)

The OP, to which I was replying, said: "see the gorilla test which is a Go framework."

I asked about the Gorilla benchmark itself, since OP seemed to say that adding something like Gorilla would slow down the Go benchmarks, which I don't agree with.

I accidentally replied to the wrong comment; this was intended to be a reply to the parent of your post.

But I also didn't realize that that person was saying that there was a gorilla test, so now I'm mostly confused.

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