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Top 23 Go Utility Projects
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Please please stop spamming up arrow to find that command you ran. Instead you can make this so much simpler with fzf.
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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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Besides keynote-type topics like "The state of Go", the first one I wanted to understand was this one. It's about advanced debugging techniques in Golang. The debugging skills mentioned mainly rely on the techniques provided by https://github.com/go-delve/delve. The relevant techniques include:
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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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No. Portainer is web-only. You can open a container console through the Portainer web UI, but Portainer itself has no terminal interface. If you want a TUI, use Lazydocker or ctop.
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The Stainless CLI generator plugs into the same release flow as your other Stainless SDKs. When you merge a release PR, we use GoReleaser to automatically build binaries for macOS (arm64 and amd64), Linux (arm64, amd64, 386), and Windows (arm64, amd64, 386), and each release publishes to GitHub with all compiled binaries.
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Go Task is an open source utility that can map simple words with complex commands, so that the junior devs never have to ping you in the middle of the night just to figure out the command that they wrote had a typo in it.
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Always great to see his open-source creations, like:
- a Redis like cache purpose built for real-time spatial locations: https://tile38.com/
- go package for reading JSON: https://github.com/tidwall/gjson
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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.
There are actually really good free backup solutions, like https://kopia.io/
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godotenv: Loads environment variables from .env files into Go applications, similar to dotenv in Node.js.
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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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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 Utility projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | fzf | 80,934 |
| 2 | dive | 54,221 |
| 3 | delve | 24,784 |
| 4 | gin-vue-admin | 24,790 |
| 5 | hub | 22,948 |
| 6 | excelize | 20,662 |
| 7 | ctop | 17,685 |
| 8 | goreleaser | 15,855 |
| 9 | Task | 15,707 |
| 10 | GJSON | 15,483 |
| 11 | kopia | 13,413 |
| 12 | wuzz | 10,708 |
| 13 | godotenv | 10,473 |
| 14 | usql | 10,004 |
| 15 | peco | 7,890 |
| 16 | lancet | 5,295 |
| 17 | go-funk | 4,945 |
| 18 | hystrix-go | 4,419 |
| 19 | godropbox | 4,204 |
| 20 | minify | 4,114 |
| 21 | panicparse | 3,712 |
| 22 | gorequest | 3,520 |
| 23 | mc | 3,488 |
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