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The languages breakdown is interesting. It seems GitHub refuses to admit defeat and categorises the .m files into various other languages which use the extensio

by rozab 6y ago

The languages breakdown is interesting. It seems GitHub refuses to admit defeat and categorises the .m files into various other languages which use the extension (M, MATLAB, Objective-C, Mathematica and Mercury). I wonder if they use some sort of fuzzy ML solution for categorising them rather than conventional parsing.

Eikon 6y ago
Here you go! https://github.com/github/linguist#how-linguist-works https://github.com/github/linguist#how-linguist-works
remram 6y ago
Wonder no more! https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/7c2adbdb15d4efd25d92cd5ed20d0025f0d32d28/lib/linguist/heuristics.yml#L265 https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/7c2adbdb15d4efd25d92... As most AI, it's regex and ifs all the way down.
- nolok 6y ago
  > As most AI, it's regex and ifs all the way down. This made me laugh way more than expected, mostly because of how true it is.
- rozab 6y ago
  These incredibly vague regexes are hilarious. But I guess if it works, it works (until it doesn't)
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