Go community names the best libraries of 2024

Online Python Trainer for Beginners

Learn Python easily without overwhelming theory. Solve practical tasks with automatic checking, get hints in Russian, and write code directly in your browser — no installation required.

Start Course

The Go (Golang) Community Has Chosen the Best Libraries of the Year: 2024 Voting Results

The annual Go community vote for the best libraries and tools in the Golang ecosystem has concluded. This year, a record number of developers — over 3,800 people — participated in the survey organized by the popular resource GoTime and the official Golang blog. We have gathered the key winners in the main categories so you can update your tool stack for Go projects.

Winners in Key Categories

Best Web Framework: gin-gonic/gin — the perennial leader, receiving 34% of the votes. In second place is fiber (28%), and rounding out the top three is echo (15%).
Best HTTP Router: chi — a lightweight router compatible with net/http, surpassing gorilla/mux (which is being archived) and httprouter.
Best ORM / Database Library: gorm.io/gorm — maintains its position, but sqlc (generating type-safe code from SQL) and ent from Facebook are getting closer.
Best Testing Framework: stretchr/testify — the de facto standard for assertions and mocks. Second place goes to golang/mock, third to go-sqlmock.
Best CLI Framework: spf13/cobra — the foundation of most modern Go utilities (from Kubernetes to Hugo). In second place is urfave/cli.

Surprises of the Year: New Names in the Top

Special attention was drawn to the "Best Configuration Library" category. Unexpectedly for many, caarlos0/env won — a minimalist library for parsing environment variables into structs. It surpassed the heavyweights viper and koanf.

In the "Best Logging Library" category, the community preferred rs/zerolog — for its speed and zero memory allocation. slog (the standard library) took only third place, indicating that developers value performance over standardization.

Go Ecosystem Trends 2024

Analysis of the voting results reveals several key trends:

Moving away from "heavy" frameworks in favor of composite solutions: developers are increasingly assembling applications from small, independent libraries (router + validator + ORM) rather than using monolithic frameworks.
Growing popularity of code generation: tools like sqlc and oapi-codegen (generation from OpenAPI) show a twofold increase in votes compared to last year.
Ecosystem for WebAssembly: the tinygo-org/tinygo library made it into the top 5 for the first time, signaling growing interest in running Go in the browser and on edge devices.