go-ethereum vs parity

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go-ethereum		parity
	Project
365	Mentions	6
46,063	Stars	6,381
2.2%	Growth	-
9.9	Activity	0.0
6 days ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
Go	Language	Rust
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

go-ethereum

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-ethereum. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-20.

Ethereum Foundation removes their canary
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2024

Even more relevant would be the Ethereum Improvement Proposal repo (where people submit proposals to change the spec):
https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs
Or the go-ethereum execution client (the most popular execution client):
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
How I Contributed One Line of Code to Ethereum
7 projects | dev.to | 26 Nov 2023

Geth - Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol.
Geth v1.13.5: Further fixes to path state scheme quirks
1 project | /r/ethereum | 15 Nov 2023
Geth v1.13.3: Pebble fixes and prep work for the upcoming Cancun hard fork
1 project | /r/ethereum | 14 Oct 2023
Goerli bootnodes
1 project | /r/ethstaker | 23 Aug 2023
Geth v1.12.1 is released
1 project | /r/ethstaker | 11 Aug 2023
Geth online pruning ETA
1 project | /r/ethstaker | 13 Jul 2023

Go ahead and prune. Pbss progress can be followed here: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/25963
How are blockchains built and deployed?
1 project | /r/ethereum | 3 Jul 2023

you may as well just look at the Ethereum reference implementation: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
Daily General Discussion - June 18, 2023
1 project | /r/ethfinance | 18 Jun 2023

Interestingly, this was mitigated in Geth v1.11.4 this March, so should no longer be a concern on Ethereum, though the authors note that forks e.g. BSC and ETC may still be vulnerable.
Bot for GitHub/Lab Releases
6 projects | /r/discordbot | 7 Jun 2023

I want to create a bot that sends messages once new releases of certain GitHub/Gitlab repo’s ( -https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases -https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases -https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/releases -https://github.com/dashpay/dash/releases -https://github.com/Team-Kujira/core/tags -https://gitlab.com/thorchain/thornode/-/releases ) have been released.

parity

Posts with mentions or reviews of parity. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-15.

Daily General Discussion - April 16, 2023
6 projects | /r/ethfinance | 15 Apr 2023

Parity v1.10.1 gets out, making initial syncs way faster.
Daily General Discussion - May 26, 2022
4 projects | /r/ethfinance | 25 May 2022

Parity v1.6.7 addresses potential usability issues with import and recovery of existing accounts.
Daily General Discussion - October 11, 2021
7 projects | /r/ethfinance | 10 Oct 2021

Parity v1.7.4 ships a critical consensus-relevant fix for the upcoming Byzantium hard-fork, node operators are advised to upgrade.
Daily General Discussion - October 9, 2021
2 projects | /r/ethfinance | 8 Oct 2021

Parity v1.7.3 beta enables the Byzantium fork on the Ethereum mainnet.
Daily General Discussion - September 18, 2021
3 projects | /r/ethfinance | 17 Sep 2021

Parity v.1.7.2 sees the light, featuring support for the Byzantine fork, bug fixes and performance improvements.
Daily General Discussion - June 8, 2021
5 projects | /r/ethfinance | 8 Jun 2021

Parity 1.6.8 gets out, addressing wrong transaction receipts on Ethereum Classic.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-ethereum and parity you can also consider the following projects:

Nethermind - A robust execution client for Ethereum node operators.

ethers-rs - Complete Ethereum & Celo library and wallet implementation in Rust. https://docs.rs/ethers

web3.py - A python interface for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain and ecosystem.

ERADICATE2 - Vanity address generator for CREATE2 addresses

besu - An enterprise-grade Java-based, Apache 2.0 licensed Ethereum client https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/besu

hermes - IBC Relayer in Rust

cosmos-sdk - :chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:

cardano-serialization-lib - This is a library, written in Rust, for serialization & deserialization of data structures used in Cardano's Haskell implementation of Alonzo along with useful utility functions.

core-geth - A highly configurable Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol.

research

Parity - (deprecated) The fast, light, and robust client for the Ethereum mainnet.

podman-api-rs - Rust interface to Podman (libpod).