Incorrect language detected (C++ as C, XML as TypeScript, etc.)

[aaronfranke]

https://github.com/github/linguist

Linguist is a tool developed by GitHub for the specific purpose of detecting languages. It's a very mature tool that gets it right the majority of the time by using complex rules.

[o2sh]

But why ?
https://github.com/Aaronepower/tokei is written in Rust and does a great job detecting languages.

[aaronfranke]

Is that what Onefetch currently uses? It detects C++ as C in the case of Godot, and it didn't detect anything for the repo of a Godot project (while GitHub detects GDScript).

[o2sh]

it only detects the languages that are currently supported by onefetch (WIP):

C
Clojure
C++
C#
Go
Haskell
Java
Lisp
Lua
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Shell
TypeScript
JavaScript
Php

Also tokei ignores all commented lines which is why the language distribution sometimes differs from GH.

Supported languages by tokei --> https://github.com/Aaronepower/tokei#supported-languages

[aaronfranke]

Upstream issues: XAMPPRocky/tokei#305 and XAMPPRocky/tokei#67

We can leave this closed though if you want.

[o2sh]

Ok, with the new title it makes more sense to keep this open.

We'll wait for tokei to fix it then.

Thx @aaronfranke

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[aaronfranke]

This issue still exists, though it is likely seen by the devs as low priority, so I'll probably have to bump this again later to please the stale bot.

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