service vs xkg

service

Run go programs as a service on major platforms. (by kardianos)

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xkg

User level X Keyboard Grabber (by go-xkg)

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service		xkg
	Project
5	Mentions	-
4,267	Stars	56
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
2 months ago	Latest Commit	over 9 years ago
Go	Language	Go
zlib License	License	MIT License

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.

service

Posts with mentions or reviews of service. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-15.

Kardianos Service for Rust?
2 projects | /r/rust | 15 Feb 2023

One of the most useful Go packages I have found is: https://github.com/kardianos/service
Native Messaging and Kardianos Windows Service
2 projects | /r/golang | 14 Jul 2022

Kardianos Windows Service: Windows Service
How to auto start golang app in ubuntu?
3 projects | /r/golang | 4 Apr 2022

Also a good one for cross platform solution is kardianos/service
Why use Cobra for microservices?
3 projects | /r/golang | 31 Mar 2022

Here's a library that I use to create system services: https://github.com/kardianos/service
Managing systemd services with Go
2 projects | /r/golang | 19 Dec 2021

I use this lib successfully for cross platform service management. The systemd parts have worked flawlessly and are extendable when needed. https://github.com/kardianos/service

xkg

Posts with mentions or reviews of xkg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning xkg yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing service and xkg you can also consider the following projects:

jennifer - Jennifer is a code generator for Go

wuid - An extremely fast globally unique number generator.

go-systemd - Go bindings to systemd socket activation, journal, D-Bus, and unit files

go.uuid - UUID package for Go

cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

datacounter - Golang counters for readers/writers

go-starter - An opinionated production-ready SQL-/Swagger-first RESTful JSON API written in Go, highly integrated with VSCode DevContainers by allaboutapps.

avgRating - Calculate average score and rating based on Wilson Score Equation

website - [mirror] Home of the go.dev and golang.org websites

vfs for golang - Virtual filesystem library written in golang

go-sample - Go Project Sample Layout

autoflags - Populate go command line app flags from config struct