linguist
Language Savant. If your repository's language is being reported incorrectly, send us a pull request! (by github-linguist)
Glean
System for collecting, deriving and working with facts about source code. (by facebookincubator)
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| linguist | Glean | |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | 19 | |
| 11,785 | 897 | |
| 1.3% | 1.7% | |
| 8.7 | 9.8 | |
| 8 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Ruby | Hack | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
linguist
Posts with mentions or reviews of linguist.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
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Show HN: Fix – An open source cloud asset inventory for cloud security engineers
I dunno if this interests you, but you actually have influence over the formatting of https://github.com/someengineering/fix-cf/blob/main/fix-role... via .gitattributes communicating to GH that it's actually yaml: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/master/docs...
- GitHub's Language Analysis System Is Configurable
- Change F# Color on GitHub
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Change F#'s Color on GitHub
There’s already a draft pr for this: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/pull/6686
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TIL: Github seems to recognize ebuilds as a format. Is this a new github feature? Or has this been here since forever?
GitHub uses Linguist to
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Where the hell do I have any vb in my configs?
I have found that: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md, but I'm also currently not at home, so I will check it out later.
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What is the proper language markup type we should use for a MakeFile code snippet?
Another option is to use Linguist which is what GitHub uses (I use linguist via .gitattributes files for all of my code projects). It is community driven and supports essentially every language possible: see languages.yml.
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Finding projects on GitHub: Topics, Languages, and Collections
Once you selected a topic you can further filter the projects by language. This means programming language as recognized by the linguist tool of GitHub. See what they say about repository languages
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Track my coding progress on GitHub with a .NET Worker Service
As I later found out, GitHub uses the Linguist library to measure the amount of lines written in a specific language... which is still pretty magic 🪄.
- How to get font colors but not syntax highlighting for a file in custom language?
Glean
Posts with mentions or reviews of Glean.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-17.
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Is Meta decommissioning Sigma?
Even if it is true (which is an unsubstantiated gossip at the moment), Sigma is not the only Haskell project at Facebook. See https://github.com/facebookincubator/Glean for another example.
- Glean – System for collecting, deriving and querying facts about source code
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Codebase as Database: Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog
Meta uses something very much like this in production. It’s open sourced at https://glean.software/
- Knows/Knows anyone that understands how to build a code indexer ala Intellisense
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11 Companies That Use Haskell in Production
Glean, a system for collecting and working with facts about source code.
- Facebook open sources Glean, its scalable code search and query engine
- Facebook Is Down
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Is there a tool that would allow me to query (structured search) a codebase?
Glean was recently open sourced, it might fit your needs - https://glean.software/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing linguist and Glean you can also consider the following projects:
kotlin-latex-listing - A syntax highlighting template for the Kotlin language in LaTeX listings.
livegrep - Interactively grep source code. Source for http://livegrep.com/
Highlight.js - JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.
opengrok - OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine, written in Java
Rouge - A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments
semantic-source - Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages
gitlab
zoekt - Fast trigram based code search
Pygments
Glean - System for collecting, deriving and working with facts about source code.
go-enry - A faster file programming language detector
React - The library for web and native user interfaces.