Just for fun
Odd corners of the Go star history.
Spin the wheel · open a random repo →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.
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2023
XTLS/Xray-core Xray, Penetrates Everything. Also the best v2ray-core. Where the magic happens. An open platform for various uses. 501 stars
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2025
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
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2017
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-
Jun 10, 2014
kubernetes/kubernetes Jun 10, 2014 · Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management 4,532 days
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Sep 9, 2014
avelino/awesome-go Sep 9, 2014 · A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software 4,441 days
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Sep 30, 2014
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, 2023. Only the stars from before that day are counted.
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No. 1
golang/go The Go programming language 102,753 stars
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No. 2
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Biggest days ever
The largest number of stars one repository received in one day. The list shows each repository one time.
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Mar 11, 2025
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Apr 10, 2026
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
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Sep 16, 2026
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.