Star count

[qrpike]

Would be amazing if next to the name it would have the stars the project has on github. Most important thing when looking through the list is how popular / active the project is.

[kirillDanshin]

@qrpike it's a bad idea because the stars on github isn't a reliable metric. the only reliable way to decide to use or not to use a package in your project - is to use your eyes and brain, but never watchers/stars/fork counts.

[qrpike]

@kirillDanshin Definitely, but if 4 of the libraries have 2 stars and one has 2000 stars, there is no question which one I am going with.

[deankarn]

And that's exactly why @qrpike this shouldn't be done stars != good library

And if everyone thought that way then new libraries, that may be fantastic, would never get any attention.

[qrpike]

Something on the 99th page of hacker news may be better than the #1 item, but the front page is a culmination of what other people think is good. Same goes for Reddit or any other social ranking system.

[deankarn]

This isn't social media and people need to use their own judgement on what works for them.

[qrpike]

I don't think HN is social media, its a community around tech/development. As is github. But I rest my case. Good project even without stars.

[kirillDanshin]

I'm with @joeybloggs. we already maintaining a list of awesome projects and we filter out and merge only the best projects and trying to help projects to become better. you even can see that after this commit the community does better software just because they see that it is a recognized standard for the entire community.
if you want bigger list with something like ORDER BY stars you can use https://golanglibs.com/, but never rely on projects you'll find there just because there are popular. if you want smaller list but just with thing you can rely on, read awesome-go. we have no plans to add stars to the list because it breaks the whole idea of the list.