Re: WAST support on GitHub

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>
>