Task Runner Census 2025

10 months ago

GitHub Actions dominates CI/CD with 39.8% usage in repositories.
Make is widely used, appearing in 19.0% of repositories despite its age.
New package managers like pnpm (22.9% in new JS repos) and uv (Python) are gaining popularity.
27.2% of repositories had no detectable task runner.
JavaScript ecosystem leads with npm (28.5% of all repos), followed by pnpm and yarn.
Python's uv package manager, introduced in 2024, is rising in popularity.
Data was collected from GitHub's top 100,000 starred repositories between June 28-30, 2025.

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