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Mill
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jaithon
The best syntax all inside a fast programing language (syntax inspired from rust, python, java, js). Drop a star :) tryna hit 50+ stars soon
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Jaithon 3, a fast programming language with the perfect syntax
wdym they've had it for years?
https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/pull/5688
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New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
From the mobile version I see a 10% other and 16.1% C++.
I think GH might have some issues because those two folders contain a lot of code (there is also C in between, but still), I don't know if I want to believe it's less than 2.6% Perl. [0]
[0]: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/issues/1626
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Grammar Index, Syntax Highlighting on GitHub
I didn't personally verify that every one of these is in the readme, but the more programmatic version of that list https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/v9.1.0/.git...
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How to detect code language in browser
1. linguist
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Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala
I believe you have influence over the syntax highlighting on GitHub of .mill files by informing it they're actually Scala, which would make reading those files much nicer IMHO: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/v8.0.1/docs...
Or, I believe you can submit a PR to linguist to make it globally registered: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/v8.0.1/CONT...
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Pragtical: The practical and pragmatic code editor
https://github.com/pragtical/plugins/commit/54096a6461f5c034... makes me long for The One Grammar To Rule Them ™
I thought for a while that TextMate bundles[1] were that, especially since JetBrains[2], Linguist[3] and VSCode[4] honor them. However, in the spirit of "the good thing about standards ..." highlight.js does[5] almost the same thing that Pragtical does which makes me feel even worse
I had high hopes for Tree-Sitter since it seems to have really won mindshare, but the idea of having an executable grammar spec[6] is ... well, no wonder it hasn't caught on outside of that specific ecosystem
1: https://github.com/rspec/rspec.tmbundle/blob/1.1.12/Syntaxes...
2: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/24...
3: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/v7.30.0/lib...
4: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-textmate
5: https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/blob/11.10.0/src...
6: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/blob/v0.22.6/test...
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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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