bimg VS govips

Compare bimg vs govips and see what are their differences.

bimg

Go package for fast high-level image processing powered by libvips C library (by h2non)

govips

A lightning fast image processing and resizing library for Go (by davidbyttow)
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bimg govips
5 5
2,519 1,112
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4.2 7.1
20 days ago 9 days ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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bimg

Posts with mentions or reviews of bimg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.
  • Go Image Converting
    3 projects | /r/golang | 9 Mar 2023
    h2non/bimg can handle both if the underlying libvips is compiled with support for both formats.
  • What is the coolest Go open source projects you have seen?
    84 projects | /r/golang | 15 Sep 2022
    bimg
  • WASM instead of C Dependencies?
    9 projects | dev.to | 14 Jan 2022
    I have web applications written in Rust and Go that need some basic image processing (reading JPEGs, PNGs, writing JPEGs, WebPs, AVIFs and resizing). This is something I always struggle with, because most libraries for image processing are written in C (libpng, libwebp, mozjpeg; or higher-level ones like vips). While there are usually dependencies in each language build on top of those C dependencies, like bimg for Go, I don’t like having C dependencies in a Rust, Go or even Node.js projects.
  • Image manipulation with Go
    8 projects | /r/golang | 31 Dec 2021
  • Image Compression with Golang
    6 projects | dev.to | 28 Aug 2021
    For image processing, I will use the bimg library because in my opinion it has a very intuitive API and is easy to use, in addition to being very fast.

govips

Posts with mentions or reviews of govips. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-28.
  • Just In Time Image Optimization at Reddit Scale
    3 projects | /r/RedditEng | 28 Jun 2023
    We chose to use govips which is a cgo wrapper around the libvips image manipulation library. The majority of new development for services in our backend is written using baseplate.go. But Go is not an ideal choice for media processing as it cannot keep up with the performance of native code. The most widely used image-processing libraries like libmagick are primarily written in C or C++. Speed was a major factor in selecting libvips in order to keep latency low on CDN cache misses for images. In our tests, libvips was 3–4 times faster than libmagick on basic image processing operations. Content-aware smart cropping was implemented by porting smartcrop.js to Go. This is the only operation implemented in pure Go.
  • Image manipulation with Go
    8 projects | /r/golang | 31 Dec 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bimg and govips you can also consider the following projects:

imaginary - Fast, simple, scalable, Docker-ready HTTP microservice for high-level image processing

imaging - Imaging is a simple image processing package for Go

bild - Image processing algorithms in pure Go

goimagehash - Go Perceptual image hashing package

resize - Pure golang image resizing

fastimage - Finds the type and/or size of a remote image given its uri, by fetching as little as needed.

svgo - Go Language Library for SVG generation

gocv - Go package for computer vision using OpenCV 4 and beyond.

gg - Go Graphics - 2D rendering in Go with a simple API.

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

go-webp - Simple and fast webp library for golang