Go (Golang) Community Chooses Best Libraries of 2024: Voting Results

Go community chose the best libraries of 2024: top tools for developers

The results of the annual voting among Go (Golang) developers have been summarized. The community chose the best libraries and tools that helped create faster, more reliable, and user-friendly applications in the past year. Thousands of Go developers from around the world, including active participants of the Russian-speaking community, took part in the survey.

The winners are distributed across key categories: web frameworks, CLI utilities, database work, testing, and error handling. Below is the list of the best libraries recognized as the most useful in 2024.

Web frameworks and API

• Fiber — retained its leadership as the fastest and simplest web framework, inspired by Express.js.
• Chi — a lightweight router for microservices, received high marks for compatibility with the standard library.
• Gin — remains a popular choice for high-load REST APIs.

Database work

• GORM — ORM for Go, chosen as the best for its convenience and migration support.
• pgx — driver for PostgreSQL, recognized as the most performant and reliable.
• Bun — a new entrant in the top, a modern SQL client for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

CLI and command-line utilities

• Cobra — the de facto standard for creating CLI applications, maintaining its position.
• Viper — a universal library for working with configuration (JSON, YAML, env).
• Bubble Tea — a framework for building TUI interfaces, gaining popularity.

Testing and code quality

• Testify — remains a favorite for unit tests and assertions.
• Mockery — the best tool for generating mocks.
• golangci-lint — recognized as an indispensable linter for maintaining code quality.

Best library of 2024

According to the voting results, the absolute winner was Fiber — it received the highest number of votes across all categories. The community noted its performance, ease of migration from other languages, and excellent documentation. Second place went to pgx, third to GORM.

These libraries are actively used in production by large companies, including Uber, Twitch, and Dropbox. Developers note that the Go ecosystem continues to mature: convenient tools for working with asynchrony, observability, and microservices are emerging.

More details about each tool can be found on the official voting website and in repositories on GitHub. For Russian-speaking developers, translations of documentation and usage examples are also available on PythonLib.