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If we look at CPAN http://search.cpan.org/search?query=redis&mode=all , there are a few things right in the search results. We have version numbers, release dates, and a review score. All of those give you a chance at finding a half decent library. The first result was updated a week or 2 ago and has 4 significant digits in the version number. None of it's a guarantee but it's a place to get started.

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It doesn't seem to be a place to get started for Go though. I just did a search for "golang redis" and it showed me a single perl redis lib?

I like the idea of the reviews and ratings though. Normally I would put almost no value in a rating system but we need to somehow separate the good from the bad without having to dive in and look at and profile code from 20 diff libs on a daily basis.

CPAN is the repository for Perl modules, not Go

The review score thing is nice, is there anything like that in packaging systems for other languages?

Usually I just check the commit activity on github if I want to see which Go libraries are actively developed.

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