Fiber web framework for Go
Shares rank 58 of 63 web frameworks by recommenders
Developers recommend Fiber, an Express-style Go web framework that has matured over recent releases. Critics say its use of unsafe causes real bugs.
Developers recommend Fiber, an Express-style Go web framework that has matured over recent releases. Critics say its use of unsafe causes real bugs.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 50%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1 recommender for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Uses unsafe, breaks string immutability
“I see that fiber goes behind your back and produces potentially mutable strings behind your back”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers” “fiber is a bad library that abuses unsafe, resulting in real bugs”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers” “violating Go's runtime guarantee that strings are immutable”
Comment from 7 Mar 2026 in “UUID package coming to Go standard library”
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The four most recommended other web frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| Ruby on Rails | 337 | 145 | 70% | 12 | 14 yrs38 owners | Approved |
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| Next.js | 127 | 256 | 33% | 12 | 3 yrs6 owners | — |
| Phoenix Framework | 85 | 11 | 89% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| Fiber web framework for GoThis page | 5 | 5 | 50% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I also don't think Fibers should exist, everything should go back to threads+processes only”
“I love your product and looks very slick!”
“hold USDC yourself, email login, no seed, ACH out if you need dollars”
“hold USDC without a seed phrase or MetaMask, email login, bank rails if you want dollars”
“Gofiber isnt perfect, but it's really great”
“I guess he never used Fiber's APIs lol”
“switching the entire stack to fasthttp”
“violating Go's runtime guarantee that strings are immutable”
“Fiber has matured a lot in the last few releases”
“I see that fiber goes behind your back and produces potentially mutable strings behind your back”
“fiber is a bad library that abuses unsafe, resulting in real bugs”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.