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Best of Go

Initial scrape in progress. Star history is complete for 17,584 of 34,211 repositories (51%). Totals grow as it runs.

Just for fun

Odd corners of the Go star history.

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On this day

The three largest star days on September 17. Each day is from a different year.

  1. 2020 cli/cli GitHub’s official command line tool 917 stars
  2. 2021 authelia/authelia The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. OpenID Certified™ and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready. 517 stars
  3. 2026 alibaba/open-code-review 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. 297 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.

4,516 days
  1. Jun 10, 2014 kubernetes/kubernetes Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management 4,483 days
  2. Sep 9, 2014 avelino/awesome-go A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software 4,392 days
  3. Sep 30, 2014 microsoft/TypeScript TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output. 4,371 days

Time machine

The leaderboard on January 1, 2020. Only the stars from before that day are counted.

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
  1. No. 1 golang/go The Go programming language 62,081 stars
  2. No. 2 kubernetes/kubernetes Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management 57,620 stars
  3. No. 3 microsoft/TypeScript TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output. 53,058 stars

Biggest days ever

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

  1. Mar 11, 2025 microsoft/typescript-go Staging repo for development of native port of TypeScript 7,850 stars
  2. Apr 10, 2026 JuliusBrussee/caveman 🪨 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. 4,924 stars
  3. Sep 16, 2026 alibaba/open-code-review 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. 3,379 stars

The oldest Go repository we track is dustin/gomemcached, created on Nov 12, 2009, 2 days after Go was announced to the world.