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Top 23 Go Utility Projects
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Those four plugins are the ones that survived. git for the aliases and the branch state, zsh-syntax-highlighting because a command turning red before I press Enter has caught more typos than I would like to admit, z to jump to a directory I visited last week by typing three letters of its name, and fzf-tab to hand tab-completion over to fzf, turning a wall of candidates into a fuzzy-searchable list.
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dive (~54k⭐) lets you browse what's in it — file by file, interactively. It answers what is in a layer.
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gin-vue-admin
🚀Vite+Vue3+Gin拥有AI辅助的基础开发平台，企业级业务AI+开发解决方案，内置mcp辅助服务，内置skills管理，支持TS和JS混用。它集成了JWT鉴权、权限管理、动态路由、显隐可控组件、分页封装、多点登录拦截、资源权限、上传下载、代码生成器、表单生成器和可配置的导入导出等开发必备功能。
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excelize
Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel™ (XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / XLTX) spreadsheets
A true single-pass .xlsx writer that emits inline strings, declares sheets upfront, writes rows directly into a live ZIP stream, and never touches temp files. Go's excelize library does something close to this. Java POI doesn't. This is architecturally possible but would essentially be rewriting POI's OOXML layer — a multi-month effort. I've raised this as an RFC with the POI community.
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sudo curl -L -o /usr/local/bin/ctop https://github.com/bcicen/ctop/releases/download/v0.7.7/ctop-0.7.7-linux-amd64 sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ctop
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go-task command runner
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Project mention: We benchmarked a security detector against 500k lines of Go. It found a real bug. | dev.to | 2026-08-24
Two hunks, one line changed. The PR is here: goreleaser#6813.
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kopia
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
Project mention: Backup Labs alternatives - Duplicati and kopia | libhunt.com/r/backup-labs | 2026-10-05 -
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Project mention: Databow: a Rust CLI for any database with an ADBC driver | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-05
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The Lancet project is a comprehensive and efficient Go language library with various auxiliary features and structures. However, we found it interesting because PVS-Studio analyzer detected the following error:
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goreporter
A Golang tool that does static analysis, unit testing, code review and generate code quality report.
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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).
Go Utilities discussion
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The essential terminal commands for your server
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Building a Lightweight Microservice Developer Toolchain with Docker and Taskfile
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We benchmarked a security detector against 500k lines of Go. It found a real bug.
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Fzf - o que é, como instalar e onde usar no dia a dia
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Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks
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Every Claude Code session across all your projects, in one list — hit Enter to resume
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My Mac crashed with 7 Claude Code sessions open. Never again: a cross-project session picker in one bash script
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Utility projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | fzf | 83,544 |
| 2 | dive | 54,634 |
| 3 | gin-vue-admin | 25,054 |
| 4 | delve | 24,945 |
| 5 | hub | 22,953 |
| 6 | excelize | 20,981 |
| 7 | ctop | 17,842 |
| 8 | Task | 16,233 |
| 9 | goreleaser | 16,094 |
| 10 | GJSON | 15,555 |
| 11 | kopia | 14,287 |
| 12 | wuzz | 10,738 |
| 13 | godotenv | 10,655 |
| 14 | usql | 10,136 |
| 15 | peco | 7,914 |
| 16 | lancet | 5,296 |
| 17 | go-funk | 4,938 |
| 18 | hystrix-go | 4,399 |
| 19 | godropbox | 4,207 |
| 20 | minify | 4,146 |
| 21 | panicparse | 3,707 |
| 22 | gorequest | 3,513 |
| 23 | goreporter | 3,121 |
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