linguist
Language Savant. If your repository's language is being reported incorrectly, send us a pull request! (by github-linguist)
FilePizza
:pizza: Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser (by kern)
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| linguist | FilePizza | |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | 68 | |
| 11,785 | 4,242 | |
| 1.3% | - | |
| 8.7 | 0.0 | |
| 9 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Ruby | JavaScript | |
| 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?
FilePizza
Posts with mentions or reviews of FilePizza.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-10.
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LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices
There are a few browser based p2p file sharing tools [1] and a bunch of CLI tools out there as well for the same job.
# Browser Based
1. FilePizza https://file.pizza/
- How to copy a file between devices?
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What's the best, fastest, and free way for someone to share their 1.6 TB audiobook collection with me?
alternatively, if going the p2p route, they could try something like file.pizza
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CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library
FYI: you can use https://file.pizza/ for sending the file outside the network.
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Alternatives to Snapdrop
FilePizza
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Services for large P2P file transfers in browser?
Maybe you can try https://file.pizza/ with Firefox?
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safest way to share a document?
Encrypted or maybe https://file.pizza/
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Opinion on ownCloud and the others
There are some DHT/WebRTC stuff like https://file.pizza/ which I should try sometime.
- [Tech Support] Les meilleures méthodes pour envoyer des fichiers volumineux?
- [Privacy] Les meilleures méthodes pour envoyer des fichiers volumineux?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing linguist and FilePizza you can also consider the following projects:
kotlin-latex-listing - A syntax highlighting template for the Kotlin language in LaTeX listings.
instant.io - 🚀 Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web)
Highlight.js - JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.
FileTea - Web-based anonymous file-sharing service
Rouge - A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments
peerflix-server - Streaming torrent client for Node.js with web ui.
gitlab
sharedrop - Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC - inspired by Apple AirDrop
Pygments
Firefox Send
Glean - System for collecting, deriving and working with facts about source code.
snapdrop - A Progressive Web App for local file sharing