github-linguist/linguist on Hacker News

…up guidelines for contributing [0], and a glance at the PRs shows much more engagement now. [0] https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.... [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/370157/

comment by sciurus · 2014-12-07 · in Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions

The first lexer was added over a year ago: https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/678

comment by gjtorikian · 2014-11-25 · in Crystal: the programming language

…correct. The blog post links to an issue in which an official statement (and a graph) can be found: https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/1717#issuecomment-... >By using TextMate grammars we also get some nice features like…

comment by cremno · 2014-11-24 · in GitHub dropped Pygments

…that the burden of proof is on showing why it's worth introducing the additional complexity. [0]: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

comment by couchand · 2014-05-21 · in Business Case for JavaScript and Node.js / JXcore

…uses linguist to identify the codes programming language and unfortunately it's far from perfect - https://github.com/github/linguist There are known issues with distinguishing code between certain languages. For eg. There are issues…

comment by draegtun · 2014-05-17 · in Programming Language Popularity on GitHub and Stack Overflow

…are a number of other low-hanging fruit that are causing projects to be misclassified as well. [0] https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/856

comment by chimeracoder · 2014-05-04 · in GitHub Language Trends

…being counted in by following some conventions, see the patterns ignored by Github's linguist https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

comment by yaph · 2014-05-04 · in GitHub Language Trends

…if they weed out duplicate copies of, say, jQuery. Linguist tries to filter out things like that: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

comment by coyotebush · 2014-05-04 · in GitHub Language Trends

It is the software the identifies % of language used in a repository and highlighting etc. https://github.com/github/linguist I just haven't heard anything bad about it so am curious why OP calls it a "debacle"

comment by rurounijones · 2014-04-22 · in Results of the GitHub Investigation

They actually have a set of files and libraries that they ignore (.DS_Store/jquery/boostrap/etc) https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

comment by natebrennand · 2014-03-14 · in GitHub's language detection is broken

How much you wanna bet? ( https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/985 )

comment by Allan_Smithee · 2014-03-14 · in GitHub's language detection is broken

I'm looking at more of this, and jesus christ, this is completely wrong: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/... Code that commonly resides in .asp files is completely different from code that commonly resides in…

comment by moron4hire · 2014-03-14 · in GitHub's language detection is broken

…types). Or is there a default match in the index that occurs when no other language is found? https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/... Not instilling a lot of confidence that someone really thought through this bit…

comment by moron4hire · 2014-03-14 · in GitHub's language detection is broken

…to fix the design issue was already done by @nox, who submitted a pull request which is still open: https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/985

comment by nbouscal · 2014-03-14 · in GitHub's language detection is broken

Do you mean, a fix like https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/985 ?

comment by nox_ · 2014-03-14 · in GitHub's language detection is broken

…in a gists_helper.rb file outside the Linguist repos. Note that the feature is deprecated anyway. https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

comment by nox_ · 2014-03-14 · in GitHub's language detection is broken

…objc. Classification is never 100% accurate. EDIT: Exact method that it is used is reported here: https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/748#issuecomment-374...

comment by RyanZAG · 2014-03-14 · in GitHub's language detection is broken

Inciminated comment: https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/748#issuecomment-374... > if you'd like Mercury language detection on GitHub then with the current implementation of Linguist you need to pick a different (unique as Objective-C…

comment by bru · 2014-03-14 · in GitHub's language detection is broken

…intentional. I filed an issue for this though just in case, and perhaps they'll explain the reason: https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/856

comment by chimeracoder · 2013-12-23 · in Counting Stars on GitHub

…of bootstrap.css to bootstrap.js, so it looks like only bootstrap.min.js is being excluded? [1] https://github.com/github/linguist/commit/d5002ef06a9f346391...

comment by coyotebush · 2013-12-23 · in Counting Stars on GitHub

…[0] https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/go-server-bootstrap/tree/mas... [1] https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

comment by chimeracoder · 2013-12-23 · in Counting Stars on GitHub

…language detection model that the developer has zero control over Pull requests welcome :) https://github.com/github/linguist

comment by thedaniel · 2013-12-23 · in Counting Stars on GitHub

…detect languages and index them as far as I know. I've used the list of languages from this file: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/... I did pick an older version as they don't always run the latest release.…

comment by misterdai · 2013-12-23 · in Counting Stars on GitHub

Github repository web pages when down show an angry unicorn. If it's still down, here's an example: https://github.com/github/linguist

comment by newsoundwave · 2013-10-01 · in Unicorns at GitHub

…shows that not everyone who signs up for GitHub uses an email address that's under their control. https://github.com/github/linguist/commit/99c296264ab320d41c...

comment by benatkin · 2013-05-22 · in Remember: your git commit email is public

The good news is that anyone can do it :D Check out https://github.com/github/linguist . It's the library GH uses to detect and highlight languages; and _many_ people external from GH have contributed to it. It's just a matter of someone…

comment by epidemian · 2013-02-25 · in GitHub now supports TOML syntax highlighting

If folks want to improve our language detection on GitHub, please take a look at https://github.com/github/linguist

comment by pjhyett · 2012-11-25 · in Github and Stackoverflow programming language popularity

…thing is syntax highlighting for ls files on GitHub. Maybe you can make a pull to their Linguist? https://github.com/github/linguist

comment by egeozcan · 2012-06-20 · in Functional Programming in JavaScript using LiveScript and prelude.ls

It needs to have the .coffee extension (or two variants): https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

comment by Tobu · 2012-05-24 · in Github: CoffeeScript cracks the top 10 languages

…popularity ranking on Github is still artificially inflated (sitting at #31 at the moment). [1] https://github.com/github/linguist [2] https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/1512

comment by kibwen · 2012-05-24 · in Github: CoffeeScript cracks the top 10 languages

…This problem would be perfect for a tiny ruby script like Linguist: https://github.com/github/linguist . Just something simple that's given some filenames and contents that can return the license type. It'd also be nice to han

comment by technoweenie · 2012-04-05 · in Why I’d like a “license type” setting for GitHub projects

GitHub's source code language detection is over there: https://github.com/github/linguist/tree/master/lib/linguist It doesn't measure line length, which could be a good way to detect minified JavaScript. It uses file extensions and byte…

comment by Tobu · 2011-12-19 · in The switch: Python to Node.js