Golang language and apps

Updated 08-Jul-2026

Go applications of note

In several cases venerable PHP and C applications have been replaced with Go, which to my mind is a good thing.

Start with Awesome-Go a list of Go apps, like this one but bigger
Mox, Chasquid, and Maddy - Email servers written in Go
CoreDNS Dns resolver and forwarder
GoToSocial ActivityPub (Mastodon-like) server
- setup GoToSocial (w/ xcaddy server)
- GoToSocial docs,
- GoToSocial getting started
- Lotus docs theme for Hugo
Hugo Popular static site generator (SSG)
Syncthing
Ollama local LLMs
Gitea Git + issues + CI/CD
Caddy web server/proxy (docs),
- see also Nginx vs. Caddy, and
- replacing Nginx with Caddy
- xcaddy setup
- also xcaddy
Apache Answer
Anubis and Go-away
- also Go-away Codeberg mirror
Miniflux RSS feed reader (this does require postgresql which is definitely overkill)
Gin web framework for high performance web services
Listmonk mailing list manager
- Listmonk docs

Go-app build progressive web apps (PWA) with Go and WebAssembly
Cogent Core can also compile to web assembly and is built specifically on/for Golang.
- A cross-platform framework for building powerful, fast, elegant 2D and 3D apps. th Cogent Core, you can write your app once and it will run on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web, automatically scaling to any screen. Instead of struggling with platform-specific code in multiple languages, you can write and maintain a single Go codebase.
Go-zero helps build microservices

Sveltekit + Ionic helps with SEO-aware websites
Ionic + Capacitor is for native-like (web-native) apps
- Capacitor can do 2GL/3GL for games such as Vampire survivors
  - Note use of open source game engines and sprite packs used for Vampire survivors. The studio has been doing a lot with the money of Vampire survivors (which was done by a solo dev). More about Vampire survivors (video).
- Capacitor can target Electron as a platform (as it is above it in terms of abstraction), which means Linux, Mac, Windows support
Reddit's Devvit platform (using Phaser) - see also this video
Phaser4