A lot of Go programmers, and I think I'd like to include myself here, are going to want to be able to plug in their own persistence backend.
For my own part, a lot of my work has some connection to a scaling problem of some kind. A mandatory/single-database-type ORM is totally out of the question and largely why I had to abandon Django for Flask in my Python work. I might at some point migrate to Pyramid for Python, but I haven't evaluated the state of their persistence story. I was mostly wooed by their testing strategy (it's drop dead sexy).
For my own part, a lot of my work has some connection to a scaling problem of some kind. A mandatory/single-database-type ORM is totally out of the question and largely why I had to abandon Django for Flask in my Python work. I might at some point migrate to Pyramid for Python, but I haven't evaluated the state of their persistence story. I was mostly wooed by their testing strategy (it's drop dead sexy).