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Websockets - Gorilla only? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by demonen@lemmy.ml to c/golang@lemmy.ml

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I find it kinda odd that github.com/gorilla/websocket, which is deprecated and the repo is in archive mode, is still the most popular library for websockets.

Case in point: go.elara.ws/go-lemmy

I'm not saying this is inherently bad, I just wonder why that is.

I guess the most common last words are "How hard could it be?", but why is nobody rolling their own?

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[–] Hal@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My hunch would be that so much boilerplate already exists, and golang is so extremely popular, that a lot of it is being pulled into tutorials, samples and new projects. If it already exists there, I doubt the many users even check the repo.

[–] demonen@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think that might be why it keeps spreading even after being deprecated.