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Rodrigo M.S.
Rodrigo M.S.

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Trending Go repos of the week πŸ“ˆ

Hey there! πŸ‘‹ Welcome to #TrendingTuesday

This week we'll look into the fastest growing repos written in Go.

Our weekly trending lists take into account the historical performance of similar repos and the repo's current growth stage. For this reason, you’ll find some gems here that you won’t see anywhere else πŸ’Ž

Before we kick off, we're excited to announce that we'll soon be tweeting about the hottest GitHub repos and issues in real time. Follow us on Twitter @quine_sh to stay-up-to-date and help us reach our goal of 1,000 Twitter followers 🐦


πŸ”ŸΒ In tenth place is highlight, a full-stack monitoring platform designed for modern developers. It offers a cohesive, fully-featured monitoring solution, including session replay, error monitoring, and logging. The authors have made installation very easy, so you have no excuse not to try it out.

We really love it when the community creates tooling for the upcoming generation. The repo has ~466 issues and ~13 contributors.

Kudos to @highlightio for creating this!


9️⃣ Next is optimism, which is low-cost and fast Ethereum L2 blockchain, which is serves as the technical foundation for the Optimism Collective.

Check out the repo to learn more about their vision. It's refreshing to see a well-intentioned and forward-looking web3 network at times when crypto is going through a low. This repo has ~75 issues and ~117 contributors.

A repo by @optimismFND.


8️⃣ In the eighth place is xc, a Markdown-based task runner designed to maximise convenience and minimise complexity. You can define tasks via human-readable Markdown thus transforming your README.md files a source of useful commands for your users.

The repo counts with ~3 issues and ~8 contributors.


7️⃣ Next is log, a project that defines itself as a minimal and colourful Go logging library. The library improves upon the standard Go logger by providing customisable, colourful, and structured human-readable logs via a simple and elegant API. The project is built with LipGloss, a library designed to build stylish terminal layouts.

Loggers are often plain, complicated, and monochromatic tools. It's really great to see a project reinventing them for the 21st century. The repo counts with ~6 issues and ~8 contributors.

Check out @charmcli for a bunch of other projects to make the terminal beautiful πŸ’…


6️⃣ In place number six we have the arbitrum monorepo. Arbitrum is a Layer-2 cryptocurrency that interoperates with Ethereum and makes smart contracts scalable, fast, and private.

arbitrum is being used by 4.2k projects and counts with ~49 issues and ~50 contributors.

The project is maintained by @OffchainLabs


5️⃣ Next iskwok, a toolkit that allows users to set up a Kubernetes cluster of thousands of nodes in seconds without the use of Kubelet. kwok achieves this by simulating the lifecycle of fake nodes, pods, and other Kubernetes API resources.

The process is light enough to be run in your laptop! Do check it out - it has ~29 issues and ~36 contributors so far.


4️⃣ The fourth place is for usememos/memos a "memo hub" that can be self-hosted using Docker. The hub allows users to create and share memos in markdown format. Additionally, users can connect with each other giving it a social flavour πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘¦

The UI is beautiful and the project is gathering contributor momentum. It's currently at ~96 issues and ~69 contributors.


3️⃣ Now the first AI repo of the list: go-openai
provides a wrapper for the OpenAI API for Go programmers, allowing them to easily access various OpenAI models, including ChatGPT, GPT-3, DALL-E, and Whisper.

OpenAI wrappers have been trending in most languages for the past few weeks. I'm glad that we found our go-to wrapper when we're programming in Go! The project has ~18 issues and ~31 contributors.


2️⃣ In second place we have XTLS/REALITY which is a server-side implementation of the REALITY protocol (a fork of tls in Go). If you're into security, tunneling, and anti-censorship, this project is for you. I should note, however, that at the time of writing this post it has no open issues.


1️⃣ The fastest-growing project of the week is DeepLX πŸ†. This repo contains a server-side implementation of the DeepL API (a language translation service) that requires no tokens, thus allowing for unlimited requests to be made.

No open issues on the sight, but it has ~9 contributors.


We’ll write about trending repos on different topics and languages EVERY WEEK. Follow us here and on Twitter @quine_sh to stay in the loop!

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