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    golang/go

    #118 this week

    The Go programming language

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    Go
    BSD-3-Clause
    139.8K stars
    20.2K forks
    3.4K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 11, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #11 among Backend repositories ranked this week, and #37 over the last 30 days; #118 of 163 repositories with measured growth this week (top 72%).

    This week's +287 stars is ahead of its 30-day pace of about +144 per week.

    The project lists 378 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #24 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 28, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Go is an open source programming language designed for building simple, reliable, and efficient software.
    • Key features include strong concurrency support, fast compilation, garbage collection, and a rich standard library.
    • The language is BSD-3-Clause licensed, highly popular with over 129,000 stars, and actively maintained since 2014.
    • Organizations can use Go for scalable backend services, cloud infrastructure, and performance-critical applications in production.
    • Ideal use cases include microservices, distributed systems, DevOps tools, and network servers requiring high concurrency.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    BSD 3-Clause

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

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

    • No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.

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    From the README

    Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.

    Gopher image by Renee French, licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license.

    Our canonical Git repository is located at https://go.googlesource.com/go. There is a mirror of the repository at https://github.com/golang/go.

    Unless otherwise noted, the Go source files are distributed under the BSD-style license found in the LICENSE file.

    Official binary distributions are available at https://go.dev/dl/.

    After downloading a binary release, visit https://go.dev/doc/install for installation instructions.

    Excerpt from the golang/go README on GitHub (BSD-3-Clause license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 15: +2Aug 16: +8Aug 19: +16Sep 2: +16Sep 12: +5Sep 17: +50Sep 18: -28Sep 22: +8Sep 23: +32Sep 24: +10Sep 25: +29Sep 26: +30Sep 27: +21Sep 28: +12Oct 2: +9Oct 3: +38Oct 4: +77Oct 5: +34Oct 6: +53Oct 7: -8Oct 8: -184Oct 9: +28Oct 10: +14Oct 11: +29Oct 12: +8Oct 13: +21Oct 14: +105Oct 15: -162Oct 16: +24Oct 17: +73Oct 18: +20Oct 19: +26Oct 20: +90Oct 21: -27Oct 22: +12Oct 23: +86Oct 24: +26Oct 25: +13Oct 26: +77Oct 27: +31Oct 28: -114Oct 29: -16Oct 30: -65Oct 31: +29Nov 1: +109Nov 2: +161Nov 3: -195Nov 4: +26Nov 5: +12Nov 8: +21Nov 9: +21Nov 10: +22Nov 11: +20

    +4,070 stars over 89 days across 61 snapshot days; best day +161 on Nov 2.

    Forks

    20.2K+950

    Open issues

    9.9K-316

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