GitHub's Linguist open sourced
Jun 30, 2011, 15:00 (0 Talkback[s])
"GitHub has released its Linguist library, designed to identify
the programming language in a file, as open source.
"GitHub, a commercial project hosting service which handles
files of numerous types, uses the library to detect which syntax
highlighter to use for a file, to work out when to ignore binary
files and generated files, and to generate graph data for projects
by language."
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