- From: John Gardner <gardnerjohng@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:03:24 +1000
- To: Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>
- Cc: public-webassembly@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAGcdajcKNmnn8LEo4UmUsRCMFDhUzU_8P9g3TBxfSE3Vs2hLXg@mail.gmail.com>
GitHub limits filetype recognition to text-based formats only, meaning binary files are skipped when calculating a repository's usage statistics. So it would've been pointless to include .wasm as a recognised extension. On 22 June 2017 at 14:44, Wink Saville <wink@saville.com> wrote: > Did you consider tracking .wasm files, the binary format for .wast? It > should be fairly easy to incorporate wasm2wast to convert .wasm -> .wast on > the fly? > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:14 PM John Gardner <gardnerjohng@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I meant to give a heads up nearly a month ago, but better late than >> never... Just to inform you all that WebAssembly will soon be formally >> classified on GitHub <https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/3650>. >> >> This has two (admittedly superficial) benefits: >> >> 1. It will now be possible to search for "WebAssembly" repos on >> GitHub, which should also facilitate gauging the language's in-the-wild use >> (at least as far as .wast and .wat files are concerned). >> 2. .wast and .wat files will now receive syntax highlighting using a language-grammar >> hand-written <https://github.com/Alhadis/language-webassembly> by >> yours truly. >> >> If there are any corrections or updates that should be made to the >> grammar's highlighting, please file an issue and I'll fix it as soon as >> possible. =) >> >> (The changes will be live on GitHub with the next release of Linguist >> <https://github.com/github/linguist>. We don't have a concrete release >> schedule, but it generally happens every few weeks or so...) >> >> Regards, >> - John / @Alhadis <http://github.com/Alhadis> >> >
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