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Task Runner Census 2025
A census of task runners used by the top 100,000 repos on GitHub
These are named and saved in shell scripts, configs for build tools, package managers, CI runners, and occasionally just code blocks in the README. repository countsall timesince 2025npm28,537381yarn6,407123pnpm2,94934Below chart includes vite and webpack to give a better sense of the JavaScript ecosystem even though they doesn’t have task runner capabilities. The scripts for crawling GitHub and analyzing the data for this blog post were managed with uv; it did the job superbly and I believe it makes the entire Python ecosystem much less frustrating to work with.
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