discord/lilliput
Resize images and animated GIFs in Go observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
74/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 28
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 65
- age_days: 3449
- days_rel: 435
- days_push: 15
- n_releases_24m: 4
Adoption not part of the score
2051 stars · 127 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A Go library for resizing and transcoding images, backed by mature C libraries (JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, animated GIF) via cgo. It minimizes memory allocation to support very high-throughput image resizing services.
Use cases
- resize images in go
- generate thumbnails for uploaded images
- resize animated gifs without losing animation
- convert images between jpeg png webp avif
- build a high-throughput image resizing service
- extract first frame from mov or webm video
When to choose
- you need fast, low-allocation image resizing in a Go service
- you must handle animated GIF, WebP, or AVIF resizing
- you're building an image proxy or thumbnail pipeline at scale
When to avoid
- you need pure Go without cgo dependencies
- you need broad platform support beyond Linux and macOS ARM64
- you need general image editing beyond resize/crop/transcode
Facets
library · maturity active
image-processing image-processing web-development media go image-resizing animated-gif thumbnailing cgo jpeg png webp avif high-throughput linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/discord/lilliput · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9c7867807c17
- homepage: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-resizes-150-million-images-every-day-with-go-and-c · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1a92ef0f23e8
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| discord/lilliput | main | 74 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="discord/lilliput")
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