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, machinery.

Best overall

Asynq

Highest combined package health score.

94
Best maintained

Asynq

Strongest maintenance signal in this category.

95
Most adopted

Asynq

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

100

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
94

#2 hatchet

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

Go Queue Libraries 7.2K stars 0 imported-by 65% confidence
89

#3 machinery

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

Go Queue Libraries 8.0K stars 0 imported-by 45% confidence
79

#4 queue

Package queue provides multiple thread-safe generic queue implementations.

Go Queue Libraries 0 stars 11 imported-by 80% confidence
67

#5 goworker

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

Go Queue Libraries 0 stars 108 imported-by 80% confidence
48

#6 gocelery

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 0 stars 97 imported-by 55% confidence
48

#7 worker

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

Go Queue Libraries 0 stars 19 imported-by 75% confidence
45

#8 bokchoy

Go Queue Libraries 0 stars 29 imported-by 75% confidence
44

#9 deheap

Doubly-ended heap (min-max heap) with O(log n) access to both minimum and maximum elements.

Go Queue Libraries 0 stars 0 imported-by 25% confidence
44

Comparison Matrix

score dimensions
Package Health Maintenance Adoption Security Imported by
Asynq 94 95 100 92 2.3K
hatchet 89 95 93 92 0
machinery 79 68 97 70 0
queue 67 83 25 92 11
goworker 48 15 42 92 108
gocelery 48 15 34 92 97
worker 45 15 22 92 19
bokchoy 44 15 25 92 29
deheap 44 48 7 70 0