RQ
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Nov 28, 2025first mention
Feb 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“That and the rq backend sound promising to me.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I'll plug my own: https://git.sr.ht/~charles/rq”
Threads where it came up
- Django: what’s new in 6.0 2 mentions
- A Faster Alternative to Jq 1 mention
- Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python 1 mention
- A first look at Django's new background tasks 1 mention
Also written as rq. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 4
“with an rq backend”
Would you consider tools like Temporal, DBOS, Absurd Workflows, PGQueuer as alternatives? https://temporal.io/ https://docs.dbos.dev/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797228 https://python-absurd-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html https://pgqueuer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
“Here are some alternatives:”
“That and the rq backend sound promising to me.”