Demonen

Websockets - Gorilla only?

https://lemmy.ml/post/1332896

Websockets - Gorilla only? - Lemmy

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 [https://gitea.elara.ws/Elara6331/go-lemmy/src/branch/master/go.mod#L9] 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?

Jun 18, 2023 at 6:40amWeb
Show threadsbinetJun 19, 2023

I guess it's because gorilla/websocket has had a really big mindshare for a very long time. and no project has had time to catch up and/or provide "reliable" hints that they will maintain that new project for a sizeable long time.

"the devil you know" and "the technical debt you know"...

Show threadDemonenJun 21, 2023

Yes, and unless WS suddenly change, it'll likely keep working for a long time.

The reason I'm skittish is because there might be undiscovered security issues, and it feels like a huge chunk of the community just don't care.

Show threada2800276Jun 19, 2023
It might be beneficial to gather together a team to maintain a fork ...
Show threadHalJun 19, 2023
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.