# golang/go

> The open source Go programming language for building simple, reliable and efficient software; the repository holds the compiler, standard library and tooling sources.

- Magnitude: 2.6 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 139,534 total · +0 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:07–23:06 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Go · License: BSD-3-Clause · Created: 2014-08-19 · Last push: 2026-11-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/golang/go · Homepage: https://go.dev · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/golang/go

## Useful for

- Build the Go compiler and standard library from source for an unsupported platform
- Install Go from a binary distribution and start writing programs
- Submit a patch or bug report to the Go project via the issue tracker

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:07–23:06: 139730 → 139534 stars (-196). This is the change over that interval.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 58% of the previous week and a half.
- Hacker News: “Our Response to the eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident” — 5 points, 6 days ago.
- About 77 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 21,056
- Issues and pull requests: 79,995
- Watchers: 3,349
- Average over the last week: 23 per day
- Usual pace: 32 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): -28

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 24, 20, 23, 16, 27, 45, 12, 42, 33, 48, 32, 47, 23, 21, 30, 37, 25, 28, 42, 29, 24, 38, 31, 24, 28, 21, 24, 34, 33, 0

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-20 4.0, 10-21 3.6, 10-22 4.2, 10-23 4.2, 10-24 3.0, 10-25 3.2, 10-26 3.6, 10-27 3.1, 10-28 2.9, 10-29 3.2, 10-30 2.7, 10-31 3.5, 11-01 5.5, 11-02 3.1

## Hacker News

- Platform-Independent SIMD in Go — 412 points, 152 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843269
- Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27 — 303 points, 47 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090369
- Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs — 139 points, 79 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50160877
- Goroutine Leak Profiles — 76 points, 6 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726773
- Size-Specialized Memory Allocation — 32 points, 5 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49735057

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-02 23:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.