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Stars by year

The stars that all the Go repositories we track got in each year.

2026 so far

3,876,097

Vs all of 2025

+502,091

On this day

The three largest star days on November 5. Each day is from a different year.

  1. 2023 XTLS XTLS/Xray-core Xray, Penetrates Everything. Also the best v2ray-core. Where the magic happens. An open platform for various uses. 501 stars
  2. 2025 mudler mudler/LocalAI LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required. 324 stars
  3. 2017 tidwall tidwall/evio Fast event-loop networking for Go 322 stars

Never a quiet day

The longest runs of days when a repository received at least one star every day.

syncthing/syncthing has gained at least one star every single day since May 8, 2014, without one quiet day.

4,565 days
  1. kubernetes kubernetes/kubernetes Jun 10, 2014 · Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management 4,532 days
  2. avelino avelino/awesome-go Sep 9, 2014 · A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software 4,441 days
  3. microsoft microsoft/TypeScript Sep 30, 2014 · TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output. 4,420 days

Time machine

The leaderboard on January 1, 2013. Only the stars from before that day are counted.

  1. No. 1 mislav mislav/hub A command-line tool that makes git easier to use with GitHub. 1,678 stars
  2. No. 2 progrium progrium/localtunnel Expose localhost servers to the Internet 1,209 stars
  3. No. 3 burke burke/zeus Boot any rails app in under a second. 1,134 stars

Biggest days ever

The largest number of stars one repository received in one day. The list shows each repository one time.

  1. microsoft microsoft/typescript-go Mar 11, 2025 · Staging repo for development of native port of TypeScript 7,829 stars
  2. JuliusBrussee JuliusBrussee/caveman Apr 10, 2026 · 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman. 4,882 stars
  3. alibaba alibaba/open-code-review Sep 16, 2026 · Secure, fast, efficient, battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelines + LLM Agent, precise line-level comments, built-in multi-language ruleset (NPE, thread-safety, XSS, SQL injection), OpenAI & Anthropic compatible. 3,258 stars

The oldest Go repository we track is temoto/heroshi, created on Oct 1, 2008.