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    Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go. It provides a Martini-like API but with significantly better performance—up to 40 times faster—thanks to httprouter. Gin is designed for building REST APIs, web applications, and microservices.

    backend
    framework
    gin
    go
    middleware
    performance
    Go
    MIT
    89.6K stars
    8.9K forks
    1.4K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 10, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 255 days ago, with 443 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #23 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 28, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a high-performance HTTP web framework in Go for building REST APIs, web applications, and microservices.
    • Delivers significantly better performance than similar frameworks by using a zero allocation router and httprouter integration.
    • Use for developing fast and scalable RESTful APIs requiring efficient routing and middleware support in Go.
    • Use for building microservices architectures that demand low latency and high throughput HTTP servers.
    • Use for creating web applications that benefit from built-in JSON validation, error management, and extensible middleware.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

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    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Gin is a web framework written in Go. It features a martini-like API with performance that is up to 40 times faster thanks to httprouter. If you need performance and good productivity, you will love Gin.

    Gin requires Go version 1.23 or above.

    Excerpt from the gin-gonic/gin README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Sep 16: +7Oct 8: +3Oct 11: +0Oct 22: +11Oct 23: +9Oct 24: +10Oct 25: +1Oct 26: +1Oct 27: +9Oct 28: +4Nov 8: +6Nov 9: +4Nov 10: +6Nov 11: +9

    +539 stars over 85 days across 22 snapshot days; best day +11 on Oct 22.

    Forks

    8.9K+247

    Open issues

    825+65

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