Re: WAST support on GitHub

Nice! Some observations:

- most module-level keywords seem to be missing, e.g., `global`, `memory`,
`table`, `import`, `export` and more
- `clz`, `ctz`, `popcnt` are int-only
- `lt` is float-only
- block comments can nest, but I suspect the highlighting mechanism won't
be able to handle that?

You can peek at the definition of the lexical grammar in the reference
interpreter for regexps and a complete list of tokens:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/master/interpreter/text/lexer.mll#L91

/Andreas



On 22 June 2017 at 07:03, John Gardner <gardnerjohng@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
>>>
>>
>