BTW, for judging the popularity of a go package you can look at the bottom of the godoc for the package and check how many other packages import it. I generally

BTW, for judging the popularity of a go package you can look at the bottom of the godoc for the package and check how many other packages import it. I generally pick the most popular one. For example for the pq Postgres package "Package pq imports 31 packages (graph) and is imported by 3749 packages." as opposed to the pgx package "Package pgx imports 31 packages (graph) and is imported by 143 packages."