Go Libraries and Frameworks

[Paul Wallace]

I understand that Go is a language which comes with a comprehensive set of libraries which means you avoid a lot of the dependency issues in other languages. However are there any additional 3rd party libraries or frameworks which you recommend and use?

[Matt Farina]

The standard library is full of useful packages. When you get outside of these there are just so many good ones. A few I've used:

gopkg.in/yaml.v2 - for parsing and writing YAML

github.com/urfave/cli - for creating CLI applications

google.golang.org/grpc - gRPC has some nice features

github.com/golang/protobuf - protocol buffers

If anyone else has ones they'd list I'd be curious to see them.