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A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-pythonstars114k.

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Contents

• Awesome Go

  • Audio and Music
  • Authentication and OAuth
  • Blockchain
  • Bot Building
  • Build Automation
  • Command Line
  • Configuration
  • Continuous Integration
  • CSS Preprocessors
  • Data Structures
  • Database
  • Database Drivers
  • Date and Time
  • Distributed Systems
  • Dynamic DNS
  • Email
  • Embeddable Scripting Languages
  • Error Handling
  • File Handling
  • Financial
  • Forms
  • Functional
  • Game Development
  • Generation and Generics
  • Geographic
  • Go Compilers
  • Goroutines
  • GUI
  • Hardware
  • Images
  • IoT
  • Job Scheduler
  • JSON
  • Logging
  • Machine Learning
  • Messaging
  • Microsoft Office
    • Microsoft Excel
  • Miscellaneous
    • Dependency Injection
    • Project Layout
    • Strings
    • Uncategorized
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Networking
    • HTTP Clients
  • OpenGL
  • ORM
  • Package Management
  • Performance
  • Query Language
  • Resource Embedding
  • Science and Data Analysis
  • Security
  • Serialization
  • Server Applications
  • Stream Processing
  • Template Engines
  • Testing
  • Text Processing
  • Third-party APIs
  • Utilities
  • UUID
  • Validation
  • Version Control
  • Video
  • Web Frameworks
    • Middlewares
      • Actual middlewares
      • Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares
    • Routers
  • WebAssembly
  • Windows
  • XML
  • Zero Trust

• Tools

  • Code Analysis
  • Editor Plugins
  • Go Generate Tools
  • Go Tools
  • Software Packages
    • DevOps Tools
    • Other Software

• Resources

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  • Conferences
  • E-Books
  • Gophers
  • Meetups
  • Style Guides
  • Twitter
  • Websites
    • Tutorials

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Audio and Music

Libraries for manipulating audio.

• flacstars189 - Native Go FLAC encoder/decoder with support for FLAC streams.
• gaadstars93 - Native Go AAC bitstream parser.
• GoAudiostars198 - Native Go Audio Processing Library.
• gosampleratestars15 - libsamplerate bindings for go.
• id3v2stars229 - ID3 decoding and encoding library for Go.
• malgostars162 - Mini audio library.
• minimp3stars69 - Lightweight MP3 decoder library.
• mixstars146 - Sequence-based Go-native audio mixer for music apps.
• music-theorystars376 - Music theory models in Go.
• Otostars944 - A low-level library to play sound on multiple platforms.
• PortAudiostars489 - Go bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library.
• portmidistars262 - Go bindings for PortMidi.
• vorbisstars29 - "Native" Go Vorbis decoder (uses CGO, but has no dependencies).

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Authentication and OAuth

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• authbossstars3k - Modular authentication system for the web. It tries to remove as much boilerplate and "hard things" as possible so that each time you start a new web project in Go, you can plug it in, configure, and start building your app without having to build an authentication system each time.
• brancastars25 - branca token specification implementationstars174 for Golang 1.15+.
• casbinstars11.1k - Authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC.
• cookiestxtstars8 - provides parser of cookies.txt file format.
• go-email-normalizerstars36 - Golang library for providing a canonical representation of email address.
• go-guardianstars336 - Go-Guardian is a golang library that provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to create powerful modern API and web authentication that supports LDAP, Basic, Bearer token and Certificate based authentication.
• go-josestars1.9k - Fairly complete implementation of the JOSE working group's JSON Web Token, JSON Web Signatures, and JSON Web Encryption specs.
• go-oauth2-serverstars1.9k - Standalone, specification-compliant, OAuth2 server written in Golang.
• gologinstars1.5k - chainable handlers for login with OAuth1 and OAuth2 authentication providers.
• gorbacstars1.2k - provides a lightweight role-based access control (RBAC) implementation in Golang.
• gothstars3.5k - provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to use OAuth and OAuth2. Handles multiple providers out of the box.
• jeffstars234 - Simple, flexible, secure and idiomatic web session management with pluggable backends.
• jwtstars96 - Clean and easy to use implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
• jwtstars277 - Lightweight JSON Web Token (JWT) library.
• jwtstars313 - Safe, simple and fast JSON Web Tokens for Go.
• jwt-authstars211 - JWT middleware for Golang http servers with many configuration options.
• loginsrvstars1.8k - JWT login microservice with plugable backends such as OAuth2 (Github), htpasswd, osiam.
• oauth2stars4k - Successor of goauth2. Generic OAuth 2.0 package that comes with JWT, Google APIs, Compute Engine and App Engine support.
• osinstars1.7k - Golang OAuth2 server library.
• otpgenstars113 - Library to generate TOTP/HOTP codes.
• otpgostars26 - Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) and HMAC-Based One-Time Password (HOTP) library for Go.
• pasetostars570 - Golang implementation of Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens (PASETO).
• permissions2stars443 - Library for keeping track of users, login states and permissions. Uses secure cookies and bcrypt.
• rbacstars88 - Minimalistic RBAC package for Go applications.
• scopestars17 - Easily Manage OAuth2 Scopes In Go.
• scsstars1k - Session Manager for HTTP servers.
• securecookiestars54 - Efficient secure cookie encoding/decoding.
• sessionstars105 - Go session management for web servers (including support for Google App Engine - GAE).
• sessiongate-gostars9 - Go session management using the SessionGate Redis module.
• sessionsstars61 - Dead simple, highly performant, highly customizable sessions service for go http servers.
• sessionupstars113 - Simple, yet effective HTTP session management and identification package.
• sjwtstars95 - Simple jwt generator and parser.

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Blockchain

Tools for building blockchains.

• cosmos-sdkstars3.3k - A Framework for Building Public Blockchains in the Cosmos Ecosystem.
• go-ethereumstars35k - Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol.
• gossamerstars298 - A Go implementation of the Polkadot Host.
• solana-gostars183 - Go library to interface with Solana JSON RPC and WebSocket interfaces.
• tendermintstars4.6k - High-performance middleware for transforming a state machine written in any programming language into a Byzantine Fault Tolerant replicated state machine using the Tendermint consensus and blockchain protocols.

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Bot Building

Libraries for building and working with bots.

• echotronstars49 - Concurrent library for Telegram Bots written in pure Go.
• ephemeral-rolesstars52 - A Discord bot for managing ephemeral roles based upon voice channel member presence.
• go-chat-botstars717 - IRC, Slack & Telegram bot written in Go.
• go-joe - A general-purpose bot library inspired by Hubot but written in Go.
• go-sarahstars213 - Framework to build bot for desired chat services including LINE, Slack, Gitter and more.
• go-tgbotstars111 - Pure Golang Telegram Bot API wrapper, generated from swagger file, session-based router and middleware.
• go-twitch-ircstars215 - Library to write bots for twitch.tv chat
• Golang CryptoTrading Botstars686 - A golang implementation of a console-based trading bot for cryptocurrency exchanges.
• govkbotstars37 - Simple Go VK bot library.
• hanustars134 - Framework for writing Slack bots.
• Kelpstars838 - official trading and market-making bot for the Stellar DEX. Works out-of-the-box, written in Golang, compatible with centralized exchanges and custom trading strategies.
• larrystars32 - Larry 🐦 is a really simple Twitter bot generator that tweets random repositories from Github built in Go.
• margeletstars66 - Framework for building Telegram bots.
• michastars17 - Go Library for Telegram bot api.
• oliviastars3.2k - A chatbot built with an artificial neural network.
• slack-botstars76 - Ready to use Slack Bot for lazy developers: Custom commands, Jenkins, Jira, Bitbucket, Github...
• slackerstars574 - Easy to use framework to create Slack bots.
• slackscotstars49 - Another framework for building Slack bots.
• tbotstars322 - Telegram bot server with API similar to net/http.
• telebotstars2.3k - Telegram bot framework written in Go.
• telegostars8 - Telegram Bot API library for Golang with full one-to-one API implementation.
• telegram-bot-apistars3.3k - Simple and clean Telegram bot client.
• teletermstars4 - Telegram Bot Exec Terminal Command.
• Tenyksstars171 - Service oriented IRC bot using Redis and JSON for messaging.

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Build Automation

Libraries and tools helping with build automation.

• 1buildstars125 - Command line tool to frictionlessly manage project-specific commands.
• ankostars20 - Simple application watcher for multiple programming languages.
• gaperstars50 - Builds and restarts a Go project when it crashes or some watched file changes.
• gilbert - Build system and task runner for Go projects.
• goyekstars274 - Create build pipelines in Go.
• magestars2.8k - Mage is a make/rake-like build tool using Go.
• mmakestars1.6k - Modern Make.
• realizestars4.2k - Go build system with file watchers and live reload. Run, build and watch file changes with custom paths.
• Taskstars4.5k - simple "Make" alternative.
• taskctlstars152 - Concurrent task runner.

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Command Line

Standard CLI

Libraries for building standard or basic Command Line applications.

• acmdstars33 - Simple, useful and opinionated CLI package in Go.
• argparsestars390 - Command line argument parser inspired by Python's argparse module.
• argvstars32 - Go library to split command line string as arguments array using the bash syntax.
• clistars638 - Feature-rich and easy to use command-line package based on golang struct tags.
• clistars100 - Simple and complete API for building command line interfaces in Go.
• climaxstars193 - Alternative CLI with "human face", in spirit of Go command.
• clîrstars82 - A Simple and Clear CLI library. Dependency free.
• cmdstars33 - Extends the standard flag package to support sub commands and more in idiomatic way.
• cmdrstars93 - A POSIX/GNU style, getopt-like command-line UI Go library.
• cobrastars24.9k - Commander for modern Go CLI interactions.
• command-chainstars19 - A go library for configure and run command chains - such like pipelining in unix shells.
• commandeerstars147 - Dev-friendly CLI apps: sets up flags, defaults, and usage based on struct fields and tags.
• completestars810 - Write bash completions in Go + Go command bash completion.
• Dnotestars2.2k - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync.
• elvishstars4.6k - An expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell.
• envstars89 - Tag-based environment configuration for structs.
• flagstars117 - Simple but powerful command line option parsing library for Go supporting subcommand.
• flaggystars775 - A robust and idiomatic flags package with excellent subcommand support.
• flagvarstars37 - A collection of flag argument types for Go's standard flag package.
• go-andotpstars11 - A CLI program to encrypt/decrypt andOTPstars3.4k files. Can be used as library as well.
• go-argstars1.3k - Struct-based argument parsing in Go.
• go-commanderstars24 - Go library to simplify CLI workflow.
• go-flagsstars2.1k - go command line option parser.
• go-getoptionsstars39 - Go option parser inspired on the flexibility of Perl’s GetOpt::Long.
• gocmdstars56 - Go library for building command line applications.
• hiboot cli - cli application framework with auto configuration and dependency injection.
• jobstars111 - JOB, make your short-term command as a long-term job.
• kingpinstars3.2k - Command line and flag parser supporting sub commands (superseded by kong; see below).
• linerstars865 - Go readline-like library for command-line interfaces.
• mitchellh/clistars1.5k - Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.
• mow.clistars776 - Go library for building CLI applications with sophisticated flag and argument parsing and validation.
• opsstars837 - Unikernel Builder/Orchestrator.
• pflagstars1.7k - Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.
• sandstars15 - Simple API for creating interpreters and so much more.
• sflagsstars130 - Struct based flags generator for flag, urfave/cli, pflag, cobra, kingpin and other libraries.
• strumtstars44 - Library to create prompt chain.
• subcmdstars1 - Another approach to parsing and running subcommands. Works alongside the standard flag package.
• tsstars13 - Timestamp convert & compare tool.
• ukautz/clifstars111 - Small command line interface framework.
• urfave/clistars17.2k - Simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go (formerly codegangsta/cli).
• wlogstars54 - Simple logging interface that supports cross-platform color and concurrency.
• wmenustars150 - Easy to use menu structure for cli applications that prompts users to make choices.

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Advanced Console UIs

Libraries for building Console Applications and Console User Interfaces.

• asciigraphstars1.8k - Go package to make lightweight ASCII line graph ╭┈╯ in command line apps with no other dependencies.
• aurorastars1.2k - ANSI terminal colors that supports fmt.Printf/Sprintf.
• box-cli-makerstars170 - Make Highly Customized Boxes for your CLI.
• cfmtstars81 - Contextual fmt inspired by bootstrap color classes.
• cfmtstars33 - Simple and convenient formatted stylized output fully compatible with fmt library.
• chalkstars389 - Intuitive package for prettifying terminal/console output.
• colourizestars25 - Go library for ANSI colour text in terminals.
• ctcstars37 - The non-invasive cross-platform terminal color library does not need to modify the Print method.
• go-atamanstars11 - Go library for rendering ANSI colored text templates in terminals.
• go-colorablestars586 - Colorable writer for windows.
• go-colortextstars209 - Go library for color output in terminals.
• go-isattystars587 - isatty for golang.
• go-promptstars4.3k - Library for building a powerful interactive prompt, inspired by python-prompt-toolkitstars7.5k.
• gocuistars7.8k - Minimalist Go library aimed at creating Console User Interfaces.
• gommon/color - Style terminal text.
• gookit/colorstars1k - Terminal color rendering tool library, support 16 colors, 256 colors, RGB color rendering output, compatible with Windows.
• markerstars25 - Easiest way to match and mark strings for colorful terminal outputs.
• mpbstars1.5k - Multi progress bar for terminal applications.
• progressbarstars2.3k - Basic thread-safe progress bar that works in every OS.
• ptermstars2.4k - A library to beautify console output on every platform with many combinable components.
• simpletablestars342 - Simple tables in terminal with Go.
• spinnerstars1.7k - Go package to easily provide a terminal spinner with options.
• tabbystars304 - A tiny library for super simple Golang tables.
• tablestars14 - Small library for terminal color based tables .
• tabularstars58 - Print ASCII tables from command line utilities without the need to pass large sets of data to the API.
• termbox-gostars4.2k - Termbox is a library for creating cross-platform text-based interfaces.
• termdashstars1.9k - Go terminal dashboard based on termbox-go and inspired by termuistars11.5k.
• termenvstars879 - Advanced ANSI style & color support for your terminal applications.
• termuistars11.5k - Go terminal dashboard based on termbox-go and inspired by blessed-contribstars14.6k.
• uilivestars1.4k - Library for updating terminal output in realtime.
• uiprogressstars1.9k - Flexible library to render progress bars in terminal applications.
• uitablestars626 - Library to improve readability in terminal apps using tabular data.
• yacspinstars307 - Yet Another CLi Spinner package, for working with terminal spinners.

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Configuration

Libraries for configuration parsing.

• aconfigstars333 - Simple, useful and opinionated config loader.
• cleanenvstars448 - Minimalistic configuration reader (from files, ENV, and wherever you want).
• configstars241 - A lightweight yet powerful config package for Go projects.
• configstars288 - Cloud native application configuration. Bind ENV to structs in only two lines.
• configstars241 - JSON or YAML configuration wrapper with environment variables and flags parsing.
• configurationstars43 - Library for initializing configuration structs from env variables, files, flags and 'default' tag.
• configurestars54 - Provides configuration through multiple sources, including JSON, flags and environment variables.
• configurostars79 - opinionated configuration loading & validation framework from ENV and Files focused towards 12-Factor compliant applications.
• confitastars420 - Load configuration in cascade from multiple backends into a struct.
• conflatestars21 - Library/tool to merge multiple JSON/YAML/TOML files from arbitrary URLs, validation against a JSON schema, and application of default values defined in the schema.
• envstars2.2k - Parse environment variables to Go structs (with defaults).
• envcfgstars95 - Un-marshaling environment variables to Go structs.
• envconfstars9 - Configuration from environment.
• envconfigstars220 - Read your configuration from environment variables.
• envhstars95 - Helpers to manage environment variables.
• figstars189 - Tiny library for reading configuration from a file and from environment variables (with validation & defaults).
• gcfgstars156 - read INI-style configuration files into Go structs; supports user-defined types and subsections.
• genvstars25 - Read environment variables easily with dotenv support.
• go-aws-ssmstars44 - Go package that fetches parameters from AWS System Manager - Parameter Store.
• go-confstars1 - Simple library for application configuration based on annotated structs. It supports reading the configuration from environment variables, config files and command line parameters.
• go-inistars6 - A Go package that marshals and unmarshals INI-files.
• go-ssm-configstars10 - Go utility for loading configuration parameters from AWS SSM (Parameter Store).
• go-upstars35 - A simple configuration library with recursive placeholders resolution and no magic.
• goConfigstars149 - Parses a struct as input and populates the fields of this struct with parameters from command line, environment variables and configuration file.
• godotenvstars4.5k - Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env).
• gofigurestars60 - Go application configuration made easy.
• gone/jconf - Modular JSON configuration. Keep you config structs along with the code they configure and delegate parsing to submodules without sacrificing full config serialization.
• gonfigstars2 - Tag-based configuration parser which loads values from different providers into typesafe struct.
• gookit/configstars323 - application config manage(load,get,set). support JSON, YAML, TOML, INI, HCL. multi file load, data override merge.
• harvesterstars94 - Harvester, a easy to use static and dynamic configuration package supportig seeding, env vars and Consul integration.
• hjsonstars255 - Human JSON, a configuration file format for humans. Relaxed syntax, fewer mistakes, more comments.
• hoconstars37 - Configuration library for working with the HOCON(a human-friendly JSON superset) format, supports features like environment variables, referencing other values, comments and multiple files.
• ingostars34 - Flags persisted in an ini-like config file.
• inistars2.8k - Go package to read and write INI files.
• inistars8 - INI Parser & Write Library, Unmarshal to Struct,Marshal to Json,Write File,watch file.
• joshbetz/configstars209 - Small configuration library for Go that parses environment variables, JSON files, and reloads automatically on SIGHUP.
• kelseyhightower/envconfigstars4k - Go library for managing configuration data from environment variables.
• koanfstars716 - Light weight, extensible library for reading config in Go applications. Built in support for JSON, TOML, YAML, env, command line.
• konfigstars618 - Composable, observable and performant config handling for Go for the distributed processing era.
• kongstars789 - Command-line parser with support for arbitrarily complex command-line structures and additional sources of configuration such as YAML, JSON, TOML, etc (succesor to kingpin).
• ministars28 - Golang package for parsing ini-style configuration files.
• nasermirzaei89/envstars7 - Simple useful package for read environment variables.
• onionstars93 - Layer based configuration for Go, Supports JSON, TOML, YAML, properties, etcd, env, and encryption using PGP.
• storestars259 - Lightweight configuration manager for Go.
• swapstars4 - Instantiate/configure structs recursively, based on build environment. (YAML, TOML, JSON and env).
• typenvstars4 - Minimalistic, zero dependency, typed environment variables library.
• uConfigstars40 - Lightweight, zero-dependency, and extendable configuration management.
• viperstars18k - Go configuration with fangs.
• xdgstars163 - Go implementation of the XDG Base Directory Specification and XDG user directories.
• xdgstars65 - Cross platform package that follows the XDG Standard.

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Continuous Integration

Tools for help with continuous integration.

• CDSstars3.7k - Enterprise-Grade CI/CD and DevOps Automation Open Source Platform.
• dronestars24.4k - Drone is a Continuous Integration platform built on Docker, written in Go.
• ducistars70 - A simple ci server no needs domain specific languages.
• gomasonstars51 - Test, Build, Sign, and Publish your go binaries from a clean workspace.
• gotestfmtstars188 - go test output for humans.
• goverallsstars709 - Go integration for Coveralls.io continuous code coverage tracking system.
• overallsstars108 - Multi-Package go project coverprofile for tools like goveralls.
• roverallsstars15 - Recursive coverage testing tool.

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CSS Preprocessors

Libraries for preprocessing CSS files.

• gcssstars444 - Pure Go CSS Preprocessor.
• go-libsassstars184 - Go wrapper to the 100% Sass compatible libsass project.

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Data Structures

Generic datastructures and algorithms in Go.

• algorithmsstars603 - Algorithms and data structures.CLRS study.
• binpackerstars179 - Binary packer and unpacker helps user build custom binary stream.
• bitstars109 - Golang set data structure with bonus bit-twiddling functions.
• bitmapstars116 - Dense, zero-allocation, SIMD-enabled bitmap/bitset in Go.
• bitsetstars824 - Go package implementing bitsets.
• bloomstars145 - Bloom filters implemented in Go.
• bloomstars65 - Golang Bloom filter implementation.
• bloomfilterstars8 - Yet another Bloomfilter implementation in Go, compatible with Java's Guava library.
• boomfiltersstars1.4k - Probabilistic data structures for processing continuous, unbounded streams.
• cmapstars21 - a thread-safe concurrent map for go, support using interface{} as key and auto scale up shards.
• concurrent-writerstars37 - Highly concurrent drop-in replacement for bufio.Writer.
• conjungostars100 - A small, powerful and flexible merge library.
• count-min-logstars54 - Go implementation Count-Min-Log sketch: Approximately counting with approximate counters (Like Count-Min sketch but using less memory).
• crunchstars47 - Go package implementing buffers for handling various datatypes easily.
• cuckoo-filterstars196 - Cuckoo filter: a comprehensive cuckoo filter, which is configurable and space optimized compared with other implements, and all features mentioned in original paper is available.
• cuckoofilterstars863 - Cuckoo filter: a good alternative to a counting bloom filter implemented in Go.
• dequestars38 - A highly optimized double-ended queue.
• dequestars276 - Fast ring-buffer deque (double-ended queue).
• dictstars22 - Python-like dictionaries (dict) for Go.
• dsustars5 - Disjoint Set data structure implementation in Go.
• encodingstars112 - Integer Compression Libraries for Go.
• fsmstars13 - Finite-State Machine package.
• gdcachestars6 - A pure non-intrusive cache library implemented by golang, you can use it to implement your own distributed cache.
• go-adaptive-radix-treestars220 - Go implementation of Adaptive Radix Tree.
• go-datastructuresstars6.3k - Collection of useful, performant, and thread-safe data structures.
• go-edlibstars302 - Go string comparison and edit distance algorithms library (Levenshtein, LCS, Hamming, Damerau levenshtein, Jaro-Winkler, etc.) compatible with Unicode.
• go-efstars18 - A Go implementation of the Elias-Fano encoding.
• go-geoindexstars333 - In-memory geo index.
• go-mcachestars75 - Fast in-memory key:value store/cache library. Pointer caches.
• go-rquadstars120 - Region quadtrees with efficient point location and neighbour finding.
• gocachestars1k - A complete Go cache library with mutiple stores (memory, memcache, redis, ...), chainable, loadable, metrics cache and more.
• goconcurrentqueuestars155 - Concurrent FIFO queue.
• godsstars11k - Go Data Structures. Containers, Sets, Lists, Stacks, Maps, BidiMaps, Trees, HashSet etc.
• gofalstars10 - fractional api for Go.
• golang-setstars2.2k - Thread-Safe and Non-Thread-Safe high-performance sets for Go.
• gosetstars43 - A useful Set collection implementation for Go.
• goskipliststars230 - Skip list implementation in Go.
• gostlstars362 - Data structure and algorithm library for go, designed to provide functi