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Top 23 Go Tool Projects
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InfluxDB
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syft
CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems
Syft (https://github.com/anchore/syft) and ScanCode (https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit) are good open-source tools to generate SBOMs and search repos for licensing information — I'm curious to hear if there are reasons why those wouldn't work for enterprise purposes.
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ipatool
Command-line tool that allows searching and downloading app packages (known as ipa files) from the iOS App Store
Project mention: Apple re-enables iOS IPA Downloads (by third parties) again | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-04Since March these libraries, along with others, have all been [unable to use Apple iOS app store authentication blocking any downloads. This is a usual cat and mouse game of Apple fixing/patching/changing and various third parties trying to keep up. For some reason this time was different and Apple went back on their changes after 3 months.
There are two main libraries, among others ipatool https://github.com/majd/ipatool/ and ipswm https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw/, that are used to download the IPA files. (https://github.com/majd/ipatool/issues/357).
June 2025 update: Aaand their back! Without any fixes from the public, all the existing tools are working again. This is much different and seems to indicate that Apple either walked back their changes.
Notably, this happened after the recent antitrust measures, so I discussed that a bit in the blog.
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Hugo uses chroma for code highlighting. It works well with the default configuration, but I want to go further, such as having the code block theme switch along with the light and dark modes, and providing code block copying functionality.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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Precompiled binaries and Windows MSI are also available in the Releases on GitHub.
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KubeArmor
Runtime Security Enforcement System. Workload hardening/sandboxing and implementing least-permissive policies made easy leveraging LSMs (BPF-LSM, AppArmor).
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boilr
:zap: boilerplate template manager that generates files or directories from template repositories
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kube-fledged
A kubernetes operator for creating and managing a cache of container images directly on the cluster worker nodes, so application pods start almost instantly
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golds
An experimental Go local docs server/generator and code reader implemented with some fresh ideas.
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wait4x plays the same role, but is available as a versioned container and provides more services to wait for: HTTP, DNS, databases, and message queues. That's my current choice.
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gossm
💻Interactive CLI tool that you can connect to ec2 using commands same as start-session, ssh in AWS SSM Session Manager
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Tool projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | gobuster | 11,979 |
| 2 | grype | 10,027 |
| 3 | syft | 7,206 |
| 4 | ipatool | 7,063 |
| 5 | jid | 6,980 |
| 6 | Ferret | 5,820 |
| 7 | chroma | 4,607 |
| 8 | gomodifytags | 2,341 |
| 9 | aztfexport | 1,770 |
| 10 | KubeArmor | 1,744 |
| 11 | boilr | 1,735 |
| 12 | dyff | 1,516 |
| 13 | seqkit | 1,420 |
| 14 | kube-fledged | 1,315 |
| 15 | k2tf | 1,212 |
| 16 | csvtk | 1,081 |
| 17 | hover | 1,006 |
| 18 | stunner | 799 |
| 19 | golds | 634 |
| 20 | wait4x | 612 |
| 21 | kdigger | 461 |
| 22 | gossm | 432 |
| 23 | webpalm | 372 |
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