grpc/grpc-go
The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 10 days ago, with 427 contributors on GitHub.
The biggest single-day gain in the last year, +60 stars on Sep 17, coincided with release v1.84.0.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements gRPC in Go to enable high-performance, HTTP/2 based remote procedure calls.
- Offers efficient, scalable communication optimized for mobile and microservices environments.
- Use for building type-safe, high-throughput microservices in Go leveraging HTTP/2 features.
- Use for integrating cross-language RPC calls in distributed systems with Go clients or servers.
- Use for developing mobile backend services requiring low-latency, bidirectional streaming RPC.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
The Go implementation of gRPC: A high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. For more information see the Go gRPC docs, or jump directly into the quick start.
Simply add the following import to your code, and then
go [build|run|test]will automatically fetch the necessary dependencies:Note: If you are trying to access
grpc-gofrom China, see the FAQ below.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+76 stars over 90 days across 23 snapshot days; best day +60 on Sep 17.
Forks
4.8K+67
Open issues
196+71
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| anthropics/claude-quickstarts | 20.5K | +733 | 75 | — |
| vxcontrol/pentagi | 33.9K | +719 | 75 | 36 days ago |
| N4darae/shrt | 2.6K | +529 | 8 | — |
| agentgateway/agentgateway | 6.1K | +187 | 75 | 14 days ago |
| grpc/grpc-go | 23.1K | — | 64 | 10 days ago |
| BenedictKing/ccx | 4.0K | — | 32 | 117 days ago |
| Category median | 6.1K | +624 | 75 | — |
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