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A curated list of Go frameworks, libraries and software

158 points by avelino 12y ago

BarkMore 12y ago
A more comprehensive curated list: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects A list with no curation: http://godoc.org/-/index http://godoc.org/-/index
benologist 12y ago
I wish it was more heavily curated so a beginner could have a better defined starting path - my experience with go over the last week has mostly been googling libraries to get pros/cons/gauge popularity.
- shurcooL 12y ago
  I wish it was dynamic [1]. So it could cater to everyone. If you're a beginner and just want to see the top 10 most high quality, popular Go packages, you'd move a slider nearly all the way to the left until only top 10 packages remain. On the other hand, if you have an obscure need (say, generate random First Names, Last Names, ZIP codes, etc.) and you're willing to look through as many packages as possible, you'd adjust that slider all the way to the right until all included Go packages are listed, and hopefully find https://github.com/Pallinder/go-randomdata#go-randomdata https://github.com/Pallinder/go-randomdata#go-randomdata under Awesome Go -> Testing -> Random Data Generation or some other sub-sub-sub-topic. [1] A simple demo of such "level of detail" visualization that I played around with, an explanation of how I could send an email with the press of a button: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/available-for-2-weeks/level-of-detail-explanation.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/available-for-2-...
VeejayRampay 12y ago
Still looking for a PhantomJS-like tool in Go. Really hope that'll happen some day. Embedding a browser engine is not easy mind you, but one can dream.
- shurcooL 12y ago
  What do you think of https://github.com/sourcegraph/webloop https://github.com/sourcegraph/webloop?
  - VeejayRampay 12y ago
    Well, looks spot on. Thank you very much.
    - shurcooL 12y ago
      Sounds like a worthy addition to the awesome-go list then. Would you mind making a PR that adds it?
    - sqs 12y ago
      I am the author of WebLoop. Let me know if you have any trouble getting it to work. I love pull requests, too! :)
      - VeejayRampay 12y ago
        I will try to play with it as soon as I can. I was wondering, I didn't find any method to render a given as a PNG or JPG, is it currently supported? This is our main use for PhantomJS as it is. And thanks again for the hard work.
andrewljohnson 12y ago
Anyone know of any frameworks/libraries that go really needs, but lacks now?
- carloscarnero 12y ago
  Full read/write access to a directory via LDAP. I was about to start a microservice where I work using Go, but had to use Java. Bummer... EDIT: a pure Go-based LDAP library is what I meant. I know there's a couple on GitHub but they seem to be abandoned. Plus, there's another one providing bindings to the OpenLDAP libraries.
- kawera 12y ago
  There aren't any natural language processing library/toolkit that I am aware of. Huge undertake.
- patrickaljord 12y ago
  Something like passport.js in go.
- micro_cam 12y ago
  The math and machine learning stuff is still a work in progress with lots of room for contributions.
- glesica 12y ago
  As of a few months ago, when I last looked into it, there really isn't a good (fast) image processing (re-sizing, etc.) library.
  - cjslep 12y ago
    I've started a small project for some key-frame morphing algorithms, but in its current form it looks more like an exercise than a library.
  - personZ 12y ago
    The best approach to that would be interacting with and leveraging existing, very well proven and optimized image processing libraries. I can see some bindings for things like ImageMagick out there.
joliv 12y ago
Maybe your time would be better spent contributing to the existing list rather than making a new one? It's very long at this point and categorized very nicely. https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects
- JulienSchmidt 12y ago
  Moreover the list contains some really outdated projects for some reason. For example the database drivers section [1]: 3 out of 5 projects are abandoned, while current projects (listed in the official Go community wiki [2]) are missing. 1: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#database-drivers https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#database-drivers 2: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects#Databases_and_Storage https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects#Databases_an...
  - pbreit 12y ago
    I can't stand these laundry list lists that, as you say, seem to always include dead projects and are littered with incomplete, unusable or otherwise poor inclusions. This is an area where quality defeats quantity by a particularly large margin.
- avelino 12y ago
  awesome-go simplifies the contribution!
  - marcuskaz 12y ago
    Agreed, I was able to submit a couple of links easily via pull requests since its on Github. The wiki isn't quite as welcoming: > To edit this page you must be a contributor to the go-wiki project. To get contributor access, send mail to adg@golang.org from your Google Account.
    - enneff 12y ago
      I typically reply within 24 hours, often much sooner. Spam sucks.
ChrisAntaki 12y ago
Thanks for this up to date list!
spikyobjects 12y ago
Sorry but that is a very short list for anyone coming from a better established language.
- avelino 12y ago
  I started writing makes 3 hours, posted if anyone is interested in contributing!
jamesgpearce 12y ago
Facebook also provides a (relatively recent) dedicated library of Go libraries: https://github.com/facebookgo https://github.com/facebookgo

158 points by avelino 12y ago

A more comprehensive curated list: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects A list with no curation: http://godoc.org/-/index http://godoc.org/-/index

benologist 12y ago

I wish it was more heavily curated so a beginner could have a better defined starting path - my experience with go over the last week has mostly been googling libraries to get pros/cons/gauge popularity.

shurcooL 12y ago
I wish it was dynamic [1]. So it could cater to everyone. If you're a beginner and just want to see the top 10 most high quality, popular Go packages, you'd move a slider nearly all the way to the left until only top 10 packages remain. On the other hand, if you have an obscure need (say, generate random First Names, Last Names, ZIP codes, etc.) and you're willing to look through as many packages as possible, you'd adjust that slider all the way to the right until all included Go packages are listed, and hopefully find https://github.com/Pallinder/go-randomdata#go-randomdata https://github.com/Pallinder/go-randomdata#go-randomdata under Awesome Go -> Testing -> Random Data Generation or some other sub-sub-sub-topic. [1] A simple demo of such "level of detail" visualization that I played around with, an explanation of how I could send an email with the press of a button: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/available-for-2-weeks/level-of-detail-explanation.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/available-for-2-...

VeejayRampay 12y ago

Still looking for a PhantomJS-like tool in Go. Really hope that'll happen some day. Embedding a browser engine is not easy mind you, but one can dream.

shurcooL 12y ago
What do you think of https://github.com/sourcegraph/webloop https://github.com/sourcegraph/webloop?
- VeejayRampay 12y ago
  Well, looks spot on. Thank you very much.
  - shurcooL 12y ago
    Sounds like a worthy addition to the awesome-go list then. Would you mind making a PR that adds it?
  - sqs 12y ago
    I am the author of WebLoop. Let me know if you have any trouble getting it to work. I love pull requests, too! :)
    - VeejayRampay 12y ago
      I will try to play with it as soon as I can. I was wondering, I didn't find any method to render a given as a PNG or JPG, is it currently supported? This is our main use for PhantomJS as it is. And thanks again for the hard work.

andrewljohnson 12y ago

Anyone know of any frameworks/libraries that go really needs, but lacks now?

carloscarnero 12y ago
Full read/write access to a directory via LDAP. I was about to start a microservice where I work using Go, but had to use Java. Bummer... EDIT: a pure Go-based LDAP library is what I meant. I know there's a couple on GitHub but they seem to be abandoned. Plus, there's another one providing bindings to the OpenLDAP libraries.
kawera 12y ago
There aren't any natural language processing library/toolkit that I am aware of. Huge undertake.
patrickaljord 12y ago
Something like passport.js in go.
micro_cam 12y ago
The math and machine learning stuff is still a work in progress with lots of room for contributions.
glesica 12y ago
As of a few months ago, when I last looked into it, there really isn't a good (fast) image processing (re-sizing, etc.) library.
- cjslep 12y ago
  I've started a small project for some key-frame morphing algorithms, but in its current form it looks more like an exercise than a library.
- personZ 12y ago
  The best approach to that would be interacting with and leveraging existing, very well proven and optimized image processing libraries. I can see some bindings for things like ImageMagick out there.

joliv 12y ago

Maybe your time would be better spent contributing to the existing list rather than making a new one? It's very long at this point and categorized very nicely. https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects

JulienSchmidt 12y ago
Moreover the list contains some really outdated projects for some reason. For example the database drivers section [1]: 3 out of 5 projects are abandoned, while current projects (listed in the official Go community wiki [2]) are missing. 1: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#database-drivers https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#database-drivers 2: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects#Databases_and_Storage https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects#Databases_an...
- pbreit 12y ago
  I can't stand these laundry list lists that, as you say, seem to always include dead projects and are littered with incomplete, unusable or otherwise poor inclusions. This is an area where quality defeats quantity by a particularly large margin.
avelino 12y ago
awesome-go simplifies the contribution!
- marcuskaz 12y ago
  Agreed, I was able to submit a couple of links easily via pull requests since its on Github. The wiki isn't quite as welcoming: > To edit this page you must be a contributor to the go-wiki project. To get contributor access, send mail to adg@golang.org from your Google Account.
  - enneff 12y ago
    I typically reply within 24 hours, often much sooner. Spam sucks.

ChrisAntaki 12y ago

Thanks for this up to date list!

spikyobjects 12y ago

Sorry but that is a very short list for anyone coming from a better established language.

avelino 12y ago
I started writing makes 3 hours, posted if anyone is interested in contributing!

jamesgpearce 12y ago

Facebook also provides a (relatively recent) dedicated library of Go libraries: https://github.com/facebookgo https://github.com/facebookgo