Hello Guys,
can anyone clarify below questions.
- Is go is only for web development?
- I heard that go lang is used in block-chain technology… Is there any other technology using Golang?
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Go is used for lots of things, including web development, block-chain, and cloud infrastructure.
Here are some of my bookmarks of things built in go:
- 42wim/dt: DNS tool - display information about your domain
- ArangoDB 3.1 – A Solid Ground to Scale Part II | Hacker News
- DanielMorsing/gonzbee: Nzb downloader written in go
- Fragmenta – A Golang CMS
- Gojot – git- and Go-based distributed encrypted journal | Hacker News
- Home - Oragono irc server
- Interactive command line HTTP inspector written in Go | Hacker News
- Ivan De Marino / go-checkit · GitLab
- Laboratorio de Sistemas
- Relevant XKCD Search
- SkygearIO/skygear-server: Skygear Server - Open-source Mobile Backend, making app development easier.
- Træfɪk
- Unknwon/bra: Bra (Brilliant Ridiculous Assistant) is a command line utility tool.
- alistanis/silentinstall: Ever wanted to automate installing loud linux/unix packages or scripts? Now you can. Hacker News
- anacrolix/dms: A UPnP DLNA Digital Media Server that includes basic video transcoding. Tested on a Panasonic Viera television, several Android UPnP apps, and Chromecast.
- benas/gossed: push standard input messages as Server Sent Events
- bentranter/lazyblog: Blogging platform for people who hate deploying code
- buildkite/terminal: Converts arbitrary shell output (with ANSI) into beautifully rendered HTML
- cayleygraph/cayley: An open-source graph database
- charles-l/gitamite: a git web frontend
- cortesi/devd: A local webserver for developers
- cznic/wm: Package wm is a terminal window manager.
- davidjpeacock/kurly: kurly is an alternative to the widely popular curl program, written in Golang.
- dgraph-io/dgraph: Highly Available, Distributed, Low Latency, High Throughput Graph Database
- dgryski/carbonzipper: proxy to transparently merge graphite carbon backends
- driusan/de: A Programmer’s Text Editor
- dutchcoders/anam: Mass scanning the internet (http and https) using a raw tcpstack.
- ejholmes/walk: A fast, general purpose, graph based build and task execution utility.
- gkill - fkill alternative written go : golang
- gogo/letmegrpc: generates a web form gui from a grpc specification
- gophergala2016/todo: Todo app with sync between mobile device and cloud
- im7mortal/gowall: A website and user system (Gin/Backbone).
- immortal a *nix cross-platform (OS agnostic) supervisor
- jangler/fervor: Graphical cross-platform text editor
- kaihendry/lk: Simple Web Image Viewer
- matryer/pangaea: Powerful pre-processor for any kind of text file - powered by JavaScript
- mattn/gof
- mpapi/graphblast: Easy realtime data visualization from Unix command-line tools.
- mtojek/greenwall: Tiny service health dashboard written in Go
- muesli/beehive: A flexible event and agent system with lots of bees - Show HN: Beehive – An open source IFTTT powered by Go’s templating engine | Hacker News
- oklog/oklog: A distributed and coördination-free log management system
- olahol/pocketplace: Draw pixels on a canvas with friends.
- pact-foundation/pact-go: Golang version of Pact. Enables consumer driven contract testing, providing a mock service and DSL for the consumer project, and interaction playback and verification for the service provider project.
- peco/peco: Simplistic interactive filtering tool
- qieangel2013/livego: go Implementation of live streaming services
- qvl/ghbackup: Embarrassingly simple GitHub backup tool
- robbiev/devdns: DNS server that replies the same address ("127.0.0.1"by default) to all type A queries
- robphoenix/trawl: A simple IP address tool.
- schollz/cowyo: A simple and powerful notepad supporting listifying, encryption, self-destructing messages, and versioning.
- siadat/benchttp: HTTP server benchmarking tool
- skydive-project/skydive: An open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer
- stefanwichmann/kelvin: Kelvin - The hue bot
- taybin/unicon: Easily extendable, hierarchial configuration manager for Go. Supports passing in configuration data through json files, command line arguments, environment, URls, in the code etc.
- tcolar/goed: Terminal based code editor / development environment
- tgulacsi/agostle: Apostle (convert anything to PDF) Go language version
- thought-machine/please: High-performance extensible build system for reproducible builds.
- tidwall/jd: Interactive JSON Editor
- tockins/realize: Go build system with file watchers, live reload and output streams. Run, build and watch file changes with custom paths
- trusch/jwtd: A single-sign-on JWT server
- tsl0922/ttyd: Share your terminal over the web
- usql v0.5.0 - universal command-line for SQL databases : golang
- xyproto/algernon: Application/Web server with built-in support for HTTP/2, Lua, Markdown and Pongo2
- yazgazan/jaydiff: A JSON diff utility
- yudai/gotty: Share your terminal as a web application
- zyedidia/micro: A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
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To complement this list, these are the areas where Go is not good at:
- When the garbage collector goes in the way: OS kernel programming, hardware drivers, hard real-time systems (that is, where missing a deadline can be fatal), etc.
- When the runtime requirements (hardware, memory usage, OS type, etc) go in the way, e.g. on embedded systems.
- GUI apps, due to a lack of a standard UI library (despite many great UI projects out there)
- Maybe other niches - this list is not meant to be complete
Apart from that, Go is a good choice for a wide range of applications, from small command-line tools to large server backends, as @nathankerr’s list proves.
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