ROrob74·Aug 13, 2025
Yes.
Ok, if that answer is too short: there are some others (https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go?tab=readme-ov-file#gam...), but ebitengine is by far the most popular...
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There’s no Go book that I personally would recommend without hesitation. Instead, I would suggest that you try to find a bunch of blog posts and lectures and read/watch them in…
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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45 sourcesThere’s no Go book that I personally would recommend without hesitation.
Instead, I would suggest that you try to find a bunch of blog posts and lectures and read/watch them in order to get a feeling of the Go philosophy. The official Go blog has some good articles and otherwise I recommend to have a look at what Rob Pike and Russ Cox has written/presented.
Then I believe that as soon as possible it’s a good idea to start some toy project so that you can dive in.
I’m afraid I don’t have too many links to share. This might be a good starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VcArS4Wpqk
Here’s a meta-resource that could be useful: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go (see the Resources section at the end of the ToC).
Best of luck!
In Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Go?Each of those absolutely do have them. Here is a list for just Golang: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#web-frameworks
In The inside story of ThreadsAFAIK, no. There are some helper frameworks [1], but none of them is dominant. Two possible reasons: it's quite easy to write a (web) service with the library functions (it even includes a gzip stream), and it's practically impossible to write an ORM framework like you have in Java and Python, so the Go frameworks I've seen are basically a bunch of helper functions.
[1] https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#web-frameworks
In Goravel, Web framework inspired from Laravel in GolangCheck the "awesome go" repository: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go. You could look under ORM and Web Frameworks.
In Ghostly is a simple, lightweight, and fast full-stack framework for GolangAgree, you can see this in https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust vs. https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
I've noticed however that there has been an uptick in great libraries over the last 2 years, with examples like pola.rs, rust-bert, tokenizers etc. starting to build momentum in the ecosystem.
In Rust – A hard decision pays offI wish more people encouraged people new to Go to look at some of the targets you'll arrive at so that people don't come into Go thinking the end result is going to be using the Go version of Laravel, Spring, or Rails.
Go has some interesting ideas about models/ORM's, OpenAPI, validation, templates, embedded binary files and other things. When types matter, like in Go, code generation is often very important as well which isn't as common in scripting languages.
https://goa.design/ for grpc/rest servers based on specs
https://gokit.io/ for microservices
https://github.com/mustafaakin/gongular demonstrates object-based validation using struct tags
https://sqlc.dev/ for generated models based on SQL (skip the whole idea of an ORM)
https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx for more traditional object population from SQL
https://pkg.go.dev/errors for an
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understanding of wrapping errors and nested error causes
https://gqlgen.com/ for auto-generated revolvers based on GraphQL schemas
https://pkg.go.dev/io#Reader all the Reader/Writer/Closer's as they are everywhere since Go cares about performance and therefore streaming abilities. No more string passing.
As mentioned in the article, flags matter in Go. The most popular https://cobra.dev/ and the simpler https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/peterbourgon/ff/v3/ffcli provide some good examples
This comment is mostly for web apps, different domains will require looking at all the approaches taken in https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go by leading packages
I like them when I am new to a technology or programming language. For example last year I spent a significant amount of time writing Go code and doing Solidity/blockchain development.
Being able to scan https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go, https://github.com/bkrem/awesome-solidity, and https://github.com/gianni-dalerta/awesome-nft for general resources, projects, guides, or just general information was a nice resource to have in my back pocket.
I think your point is valid, but it's also a personal expectation of what you get out of the resource. I think the fact that they are open ended helps both developers who are trying to reach an audience and people who are browsing for new tools, ideas, etc.
In Awesome Functional ProgrammingCommunity-run blacklists for plugins like uBlock Origin are comprehensive and well-maintained
I think that blacklists are opposite to search in a sense. Naive search is an easy target for those who try to game its results in an endless arms war. Ads and annoyance listings are not, because those who want to game it would a) delete the specific rules and get catched by feedback, b) add rules to downplay the opponents and also get reported. In a search, there is hard to say who played low, because everyone will do that.
I think “we” should resurrect directories instead of a search, which already presented itself as nonsense in a long run for too many times.
A directory is a categorized collection of links with a meaningful description (opposed to in-site bs marketing claims which these sites have to do no matter what) and few curated comment
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s. E.g. awesome lists out there:
https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python
https://github.com/quozd/awesome-dotnet
https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
… think awesome cars, awesome appliances, awesome socks, awesome instruments, awesome food etc. Every area has some interned knowledge which waits for a platform to post it on. There will be ads push force just like with search, but at least it would be controlled by community, not by faceless moremoney entity. The difference with search is that search is automated and thus is much more vulnerable to ranking tricks. You can then run very naive search over this curated data and get good results.
Also it would shift trust from sites (which you want to find out to trust or not in the first place) to people who pull-request links into a directory. You never know which of SERP results made by whom. In a directory, you can see who posted what and what their rating or age of participation is. This is inevitable because in a modern world trust can only be built with time to a person, and there is no good will except of someone real who got tired of the shit so much that they are ready to go to lengths to explain/advise/help others and get it back eventually (that’s the core of the foss idea). No corp can align with what we want anymore, because their competition is always better at money, and at SERP. There is simply no other way, in my view.
I would remove logrus, as they themselves have freezed the project. Historically there have been a lot of issues with their repository rename (for us it broke many production builds over the years). Usage of that lib should not be encouraged purely because of the build hassles.
Also i think you should maybe contribute to https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go instead.
In Show HN: Useful Libraries for GoYou can try your luck with https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#gui
I explored the landscape earlier this year when I was building a GUI version of a CLI tool written in Go. I was throughly disappointed by all the “native Go” and non-webview options — narrow selection of widgets with basic functionality missing, UIs ranging from lack of polish to horrendous looking (that makes Java GUIs look like godsend), lots of bugs, etc. I ended up using the Qt binding which, despite its own share of problems, at least worked fairly reliably and didn’t constantly get in my way in every way imaginable: https://github.com/therecipe/qt
In What Color Is Your Function? (2015)There was some controversy with its primary maintainer a while ago, not sure how it's progressed since. I can't speak of the technical side, however.
https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go/pull/1137
http://www.florinpatan.ro/2016/10/why-you-should-not-use-iri...
In Show HN: Goyave – Golang Web FrameworkNice job! Perhaps consider adding it to awesome-go?
https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
I looked at the report card already and seems like you've done a great job, so you'll have no trouble getting added!
https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/spy16/fabric
In Fabric – A simple triplestore written in GoMany are mentioned here in the lists someone took the trouble to assemble for us:
https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
https://github.com/uhub/awesome-go
https://github.com/gobuild/awesome-go-tools
https://awesome-repos.ecp.plus/go.html
This one went further than just assembling the list:
https://go.libhunt.com/
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