Task Runner Census 2025
TL;DR - Key Take-aways
GitHub Actions dominates CI/CD, Make is omnipresent, and new package managers like uv and pnpm are popular in new repos.
How and why I counted
Every software project accretes snippets of code for developers to execute that are outside the primary codebase. These are named and saved in shell scripts, configs for build tools, package managers, CI runners, and occasionally just code blocks in the README. To find out what people are actually doing in 2025, I crawled the 100,00...
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