gin-gonic/gin

Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go. It provides a Martini-like API but with significantly better performance—up to 40 times faster—thanks to httprouter. Gin is designed for building REST APIs, web applications, and microservices.

Backend & databasesGo#server#middleware#framework#go#router

1.4 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

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About the project

Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework for Go with a Martini-like API and a zero-allocation router, designed for REST APIs, web apps, and microservices.

Useful for

Build a REST API in Go with route grouping and middleware
Spin up a microservice handling many concurrent requests
Add middleware for logging, CORS, or panic recovery

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

8 stars so far today, about 10 expected by the end of the day.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 89,238
Stars in a day: 10
Forks: 8,700
Issues and pull requests: 4,725
Watchers: 1,364
Language: Go
License: MIT
Latest release: v1.12.0 · February 28, 2026
Created: June 16, 2014
Last push: September 16, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 16, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #11, +11 stars
September 15, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #11, +12 stars

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