Top 23 Go package-manager Projects

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1. athens

   1 12 4,796 7.8 Go

   A Go module datastore and proxy (by gomods)

   

2. AppSignal

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   AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.

   

3. whalebrew

   2 3 4,239 6.3 Go

   Homebrew, but with Docker images

   

4. timoni

   3 16 2,012 9.0 Go

   Timoni is a package manager for Kubernetes, powered by CUE and inspired by Helm.

   

5. hermit

   4 7 919 8.4 Go

   🐚 Hermit manages isolated, self-bootstrapping sets of tools in software projects. (by cashapp)

   

   Project mention: Hermit – uniform tooling for Linux and Mac | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-01

6. pacseek

   5 5 657 4.5 Go

   A terminal user interface for searching and installing Arch Linux packages

   

7. boss

   6 1 626 8.9 Go

   Dependency Manager for Delphi and Lazarus (by HashLoad)

   

   Project mention: Boss – Dependency Manager for Delphi and Lazarus | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-15

8. apx

   7 18 589 7.9 Go

   Apx (/à·peks/) is the default package manager in Vanilla OS. It is a wrapper around multiple package managers to install packages and run commands inside a managed container.

   

9. Kargo

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10. zap

    8 17 586 2.3 Go

    :zap: Delightful AppImage package manager (by srevinsaju)

    

11. lure

    9 13 433 8.7 Go

    The community repository missing from your Linux distro

    

12. nami

    10 3 353 5.5 Go

    A clean and tidy decentralized package manager. (by txthinking)

    

13. stew

    11 6 352 6.6 Go

    🥘 An independent package manager for compiled binaries.

    

14. dbin

    12 2 319 6.4 Go

    📦 Poor man's package manager. +4164 statically linked binaries in the default repos [automated build repos: Go[+34k], Rust[+7k]] (amd64/arm64/riscv)! The easy to use, easy to get, suckless software distribution system.

    

15. dalec

    13 3 318 9.4 Go

    📦 Produce secure packages and containers with declarative configurations

    

    Project mention: A Decade of Docker Containers | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-07

16. luet

    14 5 307 7.1 Go

    :package: :whale: 0-dependency Container-based Package Manager using SAT solver and QLearning

    

17. kustomizer

    15 2 304 2.0 Go

    An experimental package manager for distributing Kubernetes configuration as OCI artifacts.

    

18. pig

    16 5 202 9.7 Go

    PostgreSQL Extension Package Manager

    

    Project mention: PostgreSQL Extension Catalog | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-25

19. bramble

    17 2 193 0.0 Go

    Purely functional build system and package manager (by maxmcd)

    

20. npackd

    18 2 171 9.5 Go

    Package manager for Microsoft Windows: Wiki, bug tracker, mirror of the default repositories

    

21. veet

    19 1 142 6.0 Go

    Universal Linux Application Uninstaller & Deep-Clean Residual Purger

    

    Project mention: Show HN: An Universal Linux Application Uninstaller | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-15

22. parm

    20 2 141 9.1 Go

    Cross-platform package manager for GitHub Releases 🧀

    

    Project mention: Your Package Manager's Installer Doesn't Know Fish Exists | dev.to | 2026-03-31

    parm is a binary package manager for GitHub Releases, written in Go by alxrw. You give it a repo (parm install owner/repo) and it finds the latest release, picks the right binary for your platform, downloads it, and symlinks it onto your PATH. No root access, no system package manager, no registry to maintain. It queries GitHub directly.

23. rewinged

    21 2 86 4.3 Go

    rewinged is a self-hosted winget package source

    

24. webman

    22 6 65 1.8 Go

    Add, remove, and manage different versions of web-distributed software binaries. No elevated permissions required!

    

25. ore-light

    23 1 62 9.0 Go

    Lean, Bundler-compatible gem manager written in Go

    

    Project mention: ⚡️ setup-ruby-flash | dev.to | 2026-01-18

    A fast GitHub Action for fast Ruby environment setup using rv for Ruby installation and ore for gem management.

26. SaaSHub

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    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

    

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• The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

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• Show HN: Pharos – A package manager for MCP servers (like NPM, but for MCP)

  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Aug 2026

• PostgreSQL Extension Catalog

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jul 2026

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• Hermit – uniform tooling for Linux and Mac

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• Your Package Manager's Installer Doesn't Know Fish Exists

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• A note from our sponsor - Kargo
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