I quickly looked this over. Does Golang have some hidden ORM like feature that makes complex persistence easy? I spent the last three months working on a storage mechanism that controls all of CRUD at the document level across what is essentially Google Groups (each op is allowed to multiple groups). This is where web work is complex.

Came here to say the same thing. Go won't enter "crud webapp" market until they have a better story on relational db interactions. I'm afraid this is way beyond the current possibilities of the language as it offer barely any meta-programming technics, on purpose.

What about https://github.com/go-xorm/xorm ?

Thanks for the link, i didn't know about it. From what i see from the documentation (which looks pretty sparse) it doesn't implement lazy loading or any kind of mapping between SQL relation (1-n , n-n) to and from the go structs, so i guess it's pretty far from any of today's standard.