I think the big take away here is the importance of apparently redundant sanity checks....

I've mostly used Hibernate and NHibernate, and SQLAlchemy a few years ago.

  Python? Django, Tornado, Twisted, etc
  Go? "net/http" + Gorilla (http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/)
  Java? JSF 2.0, GWT, Spring, Tapestry, etc etc
  C#? ASP.NET MVC

"You know what you could do instead of using Rails? Implement your own ad-hoc version of 60% of Rails!"

Maybe you don't need to whole kitchen sink. Also its not as though there are not other Go libraries to get other functionality from such as DB/ORM functionality.

For the record, I have written some Go, but not worked on Revel specifically.

I can certainly recommend Django - I've been working with a large-ish Django codebase for 3 years and have yet to see a security vulnerability as bad as the ones Rails seems to have every month.

I've used it with NHibernate for the ORM and Postgres.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2235204

I'm sure one of the alternative JVM languages would make this setup tolerable to work with, even pleasurable, but I don't know them.

I get tired of paying taxes and brushing my teeth, too, but I still do it, because life will get worse in a hurry if I don't.