The record
Who backs Iris
Developed in the open since 2016 and funded by the people who use it. Everything below is something you can go and check yourself.
The evidence
- 379 sponsors, listed by name, including 4 companies. Money is a harder signal than a quote.
- The repository: every commit since 2016, every release, and every issue that was ever filed, including the ones that went badly.
- The stargazers, which is a popularity number rather than a quality one, but it is at least a number you can count yourself.
- Discussions: questions asked and answered in public, with dates on them.
- Code Wiki, which Google generates from the source. Nobody on this project writes it or can edit it.
Ten years of it
Iris started in 2016 and has been maintained continuously since, through four major versions, by one person with contributions from hundreds of others. Version 14 rebuilt the framework around Go generics and is the largest release in its history. The commit log is the long version of this paragraph.
Speed
We benchmark Iris against other Go frameworks, in the open, at kataras/server-benchmarks: throughput, latency and memory, with the harness and the handlers in the repository. It is our suite rather than a third party's, so read it that way, and run it on your own hardware before it decides anything for you.