Actor Model

• asynkron/protoactor-go - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin ☆5,389
• ergo-services/ergo - based Framework with network transparency for creating event-driven architecture in Golang. Inspired by Erlang. Zero dependencies. ☆4,312
• anthdm/hollywood - weight Actor engine written in Golang ☆2,151
• Tochemey/goakt

Artificial Intelligence

• ollama/ollama - oss, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3 and other models. ☆157,711
• mudler/LocalAI - hosted and local-first. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI, running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. Runs gguf, transformers, diffusers and many more. Features: Generate Text, MCP, Audio, Video, Images, Voice Cloning, Distributed, P2P and decentralized inference ☆40,137
• tmc/langchaingo - based programs in Go ☆8,228
• philippgille/chromem-go - like interface and zero third-party dependencies. In-memory with optional persistence. ☆802
• presbrey/ollamafarm
• maximhq/bifrost
• universal-tool-calling-protocol/go-utcp

Audio and Music

• ebitengine/oto - level library to play sound on multiple platforms ☆1,830
• gordonklaus/portaudio
• DylanMeeus/GoAudio
• gen2brain/malgo
• mewkiz/flac
• tosone/minimp3
• dh1tw/gosamplerate

Auth

Authorization

• apache/casbin

Authentication and OAuth

• casbin/casbin
• golang-jwt/jwt
• markbates/goth
• golang/oauth2
• ory/keto - first. Available as a service on Ory Network and for self-hosters. ☆5,214
• aarondl/authboss
• cerbos/cerbos - agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage by writing context-aware access control policies for your application resources. ☆4,167
• openfga/openfga
• alexedwards/scs
• lestrrat-go/jwx
• openshift/osin
• dghubble/gologin
• zitadel/oidc
• cristalhq/jwt
• shaj13/go-guardian - Guardian is a golang library that provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to create powerful modern API and web authentication. ☆602
• go-jose/go-jose
• abraithwaite/jeff
• Kwynto/gosession
• leodip/goiabada
• RijulGulati/otpgen
• jellydator/sessionup
• icza/session - GAE). ☆118
• brianvoe/sjwt
• essentialkaos/branca - Poly1305 AEAD) for Golang ☆93
• mengzhuo/cookiestxt

Benchmarks

• smallnest/go-web-framework-benchmark
• julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark
• alecthomas/go_serialization_benchmarks
• atemerev/skynet
• SimonWaldherr/golang-benchmarks - (measure the speed of golang) ☆141
• feyeleanor/gospeed - benchmarks for calculating the speed of language constructs ☆126
• nikolaydubina/go-ml-benchmarks

Blockchain

• ethereum/go-ethereum
• ipfs/kubo
• lightningnetwork/lnd
• cosmos/cosmos-sdk
• gagliardetto/solana-go
• gnolang/gno - based Go virtual machine to build succinct and composable apps + gno.land: a blockchain for timeless code and fair open-source. ☆1,032
• cometbft/cometbft - tolerant, deterministic state machine replication engine. A fork and successor to Tendermint Core. ☆832
• ChainSafe/gossamer

Bot Building

• tucnak/telebot
• wabarc/wayback - style interface that prioritizes privacy and accessibility, integrated with various archival services including Internet Archive, archive.today, Ghostarchive, IPFS, Telegraph, and file systems. ☆2,107
• go-telegram/bot
• mymmrac/telego
• diamondburned/arikawa
• NicoNex/echotron
• gempir/go-twitch-irc
• innogames/slack-bot
• mr-linch/go-tg
• slack-io/slacker
• onrik/micha

Build Automation

• air-verse/air
• go-task/task
• joerdav/xc
• goyek/goyek
• flowexec/flow

CLI & Terminal

Advanced Console UIs

• box-cli-maker/box-cli-maker

Code Analysis

• golangci/golangci-lint
• mgechev/revive - in replacement for golint ☆5,362
• kisielk/errcheck
• go-critic/go-critic
• segmentio/golines
• daveshanley/vacuum
• yuroyoro/goast-viewer
• sqs/goreturns - like tool for Go programmers that fills in Go return statements with zero values to match the func return types ☆536
• presmihaylov/todocheck
• mdempsky/unconvert
• mibk/dupl
• tomarrell/wrapcheck
• shurcooL/gostatus
• Antonboom/testifylint
• Crocmagnon/fatcontext
• sashamelentyev/usestdlibvars
• mccoyst/validate

Command Line

Advanced Console UIs

• charmbracelet/bubbletea
• antonmedv/fx
• gizak/termui
• jroimartin/gocui
• charmbracelet/lipgloss
• charmbracelet/bubbles
• c-bata/go-prompt - prompt-toolkit. ☆5,439
• pterm/pterm - platform compatible. ☆5,314
• schollz/progressbar - safe progress bar for Golang applications ☆4,611
• mum4k/termdash
• guptarohit/asciigraph
• briandowns/spinner
• vbauerster/mpb
• muesli/termenv
• gookit/color
• logrusorgru/aurora - colors that supports Printf/Sprintf methods ☆1,475
• mattn/go-isatty
• mattn/go-colorable
• Delta456/box-cli-maker
• Evertras/bubble-table
• cyucelen/marker

Standard CLI

• spf13/cobra
• urfave/cli
• elves/elvish
• alecthomas/kingpin
• dnote/dnote
• jessevdk/go-flags
• spf13/pflag - in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags. ☆2,672
• alexflint/go-arg - based argument parsing in Go ☆2,210
• nanovms/ops - build and run nanos unikernels ☆1,442
• carapace-sh/carapace-bin - shell completion binary. ☆1,612
• posener/complete
• carapace-sh/carapace - shell completion library. ☆1,032
• leaanthony/clir
• urfave/sflags
• hedzr/cmdr - compliant command-line UI (CLI) parser and Hierarchical-configuration operations ☆140
• reeflective/readline
• cristalhq/acmd
• codingconcepts/env - based environment configuration for structs ☆126
• reeflective/console - loop application library for Cobra commands (powerful, ready-to-run and easy to use) ☆100
• DavidGamba/go-getoptions - in auto-completion support. ☆61
• dixonwille/wlog - platform color and concurrency. ☆67
• nyaosorg/go-readline-ny
• hashicorp/cli - line interfaces. ☆32
• sgreben/flagvar
• carapace-sh/carapace-spec - shell completion spec. ☆25
• jxskiss/mcli

Concurrency

Stream Processing

• fulminate-io/machine
• Primetalk/goio

Configuration

Standard CLI

• spf13/viper
• bytedance/sonic
• caarlos0/env - dependencies library to parse environment variables into structs ☆5,897
• knadh/koanf
• alecthomas/kong - line parser for Go ☆2,880
• ilyakaznacheev/cleanenv
• adrg/xdg
• cristalhq/aconfig
• gookit/config
• kkyr/fig
• hjson/hjson-go
• nil-go/konf
• vrischmann/envconfig
• chaindead/zerocfg - effort, concise configuration management that avoids boilerplate and repetitive actions. ☆198
• beatlabs/harvester
• BoRuDar/configuration
• gurkankaymak/hocon
• go-simpler/env
• omeid/uconfig - dependency, and extendable configuration management library for Go ☆72
• num30/config
• PaddleHQ/go-aws-ssm
• sakirsensoy/genv
• dsbasko/go-cfg
• wkhere/bcl
• greencoda/confiq
• romshark/yamagiconf
• nasermirzaei89/env
• deatil/go-array
• atelpis/enflag - focused Golang config: unify Env & Flag parsing in one call with minimal code and zero dependencies. ☆35

Continuous Integration

Standard CLI

• harness/harness - to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries. ☆33,712
• woodpecker-ci/woodpecker
• ovh/cds - Grade Continuous Delivery & DevOps Automation Open Source Platform ☆4,787
• raviqqe/muffet
• vladopajic/go-test-coverage - test-coverage is a tool designed to report issues when test coverage falls below a specified threshold ☆205
• nikogura/gomason
• opnlabs/dot
• gha-common/go-beautiful-html-coverage

Credits

Utility/Miscellaneous

• avelino/awesome-go

CSS Preprocessors

Standard CLI

• wellington/go-libsass
• napsy/go-css

Database

Caches

• golang/groupcache - filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases. ☆13,289
• hypermodeinc/ristretto - bound Go cache ☆6,524
• eko/gocache
• bluele/gcache - memory cache library for golang. It supports multiple eviction policies: LRU, LFU, ARC ☆2,724
• VictoriaMetrics/fastcache - safe inmemory cache for big number of entries in Go. Minimizes GC overhead ☆2,301
• maypok86/otter
• viccon/sturdyc
• jellydator/ttlcache - memory cache with item expiration and generics ☆1,195
• EchoVault/SugarDB - memory alternative to Redis. ☆518
• faabiosr/cachego - Multiple drivers ☆373
• Yiling-J/theine-go - memory cache ☆359
• elastic/go-freelru
• naughtygopher/pocache
• erni27/imcache - dependency generic in-memory cache Go library ☆123
• OrlovEvgeny/go-mcache - throughput, sharded in-memory KV cache for Go with minimal allocations ☆101
• zekroTJA/timedmap - value pairs. ☆74
• codingsince1985/couchcache - service in Go backed by Couchbase ☆66
• mdaliyan/icache - safe, zero-dependency, key-value, in-memory cache ☆23