Automated ranking

Best Go Queue Libraries

Compare go queue libraries by maintenance, adoption, security, release activity, and Go ecosystem usage. Top packages in this group include Asynq, hatchet, queue.

Best overall

Asynq

Highest combined package health score.

Best maintained

Asynq

Strongest maintenance signal in this category.

Most adopted

Asynq

Highest adoption signal from stars, forks, and imported-by data.

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Ranked Packages

9 packages

#1 Asynq

Package asynq provides a framework for Redis based distrubted task queue.

Go Queue Libraries 13.3K stars 2.3K imported-by 100% confidence

#2 hatchet

🪓 An orchestration engine for background tasks, AI agents, and durable workflows

Go Queue Libraries 7.2K stars 0 imported-by 100% confidence

#3 queue

Package queue provides multiple thread-safe generic queue implementations.

Go Queue Libraries 354 stars 11 imported-by 100% confidence

#4 machinery

Machinery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.

Go Queue Libraries 8.0K stars 0 imported-by 100% confidence

#5 deheap

Package deheap provides a doubly-ended heap (min-max heap).

Go Queue Libraries 16 stars 15 imported-by 100% confidence

#6 bokchoy

Simple job queues for Go backed by Redis

Go Queue Libraries 278 stars 29 imported-by 60% confidence

#7 goworker

Package goworker is a Resque-compatible, Go-based background worker.

Go Queue Libraries 2.8K stars 108 imported-by 100% confidence

Package gocelery is Celery Distributed Task Queue in Go Celery distributed tasks are used heavily in many python web applications and this library allows you to implement celery workers in Go as well as being able to submit celery tasks in Go.

Go Queue Libraries 2.5K stars 0 imported-by 75% confidence

#9 worker

Package worker accepts Jobs and places them in a queue to be executed N at a time.

Go Queue Libraries 14 stars 19 imported-by 95% confidence

Comparison Matrix

score dimensions

Package	Health	Maintenance	Adoption	Security	Imported by
Asynq	94	95	100	92	2.3K
hatchet	90	95	93	92	0
queue	89	95	78	92	11
machinery	86	68	97	92	0
deheap	81	88	52	92	15
bokchoy	79	76	78	92	29
goworker	78	45	100	92	108
gocelery	59	20	77	70	0
worker	56	15	42	92	19

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