I agree, but a side effect of there being no mainstream ORMs is that the frameworks themselves don't have well-defined model layers. They're routing, filter, and template systems, and Golang's standard library does a pretty good job of that already.

I'm aware that many people don't use ORMs and feel they cause more problems than they solve. However, I'm struggling to think of a popular web framework in any language that doesn't include or suggest a specific ORM.

So out of curiosity, when you do web development, do you use an ORM-less framework, or do you simply not use the ORM that's included/recommended?