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After several years now of defaulting to Go, in the last month I've gone back to PHP (specifically Laravel) for a new project.

It's... comfortable. That's probably the best way I can describe how I feel about it. I've missed working in PHP, despite how much I enjoy Go.

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Same. I love Go, the language, much more than PHP, but Laravel.. Laravel is really great.

I wish Go had something as convenient and complete as Laravel. Unfortunately that's impossible to achieve in a static language without polymorphism (generics) or metaprogramming.

I'm waiting for Go to introduce polymorphism and I'll be watching closely to see how 'post-generics' web frameworks make Go great again!

Have you tried the Buffalo framework? It's touted as Go's answer to Rails.

I've tried Buffalo. It's... fine, but it doesn't have the same feel as Laravel does for PHP.

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