In this episode, we share the story of how Watermill, our event-driven library for Go, grew from a side project to a popular open source library with over 8,000 GitHub stars and 100+ contributors.

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Watermill is a successful open-source event-driven library for Go, achieving over 8,000 stars on GitHub. Its growth from a side project was fueled by addressing real-world problems, maintaining backward compatibility, and active promotion through conferences and blog posts. Watermill emphasizes the importance of clear documentation with real-life examples and a minimal breaking change policy, staying in version 1 for six years.

Watermill: from a hobby project to 8k stars on GitHub

<p>used it for professional projects, it’s awesome :) DI done right and all major pubsub system plugins just magically work :)</p>
