Prog8 language detected as Lua

[akubiczek]

Problem Description

The Prog8 source code is detected as Lua language.

URL of the affected repository:

https://github.com/akubiczek/p8checkers

Last modified on:

2020-12-02

Expected language:

Prog8

https://prog8.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://github.com/irmen/prog8

Detected language:

Lua

[lildude]

This is happening because Linguist doesn't know anything about the "Prog8" language and currently only associates the .p8 extension with Lau:

https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/633d196c170e002bcccb4143d6906787f360e08b/lib/linguist/languages.yml#L3031-L3051

Unfortunately, as Linguist doesn't know about the language, you can't implement a workaround, however if Prog8 meets the requirements detailed in CONTRIBUTING.md, we'd be happy to accept a PR.

[Nixinova]

Quite difficult to search for usage using GitHub search, but using keyword ubyte gives <100 files and 26 repos, so I don't think this meets the requirements.

[Alhadis]

Yep, that's correct.

@akubiczek Until Prog8 satisfies the distribution criteria, you can "fix" the Lua misclassification by adding a .gitattributes file containing the following override:

*.p8 linguist-language=Text

Or if you want to repurpose another language's highlighting because it's syntactically similar (but obviously don't want it affecting classification), you can try:

*.p8 linguist-language=C linguist-detectable=false

(Note that I actually haven't tested this. YMMV…)

Because Text is recognised by Linguist as a prose-type language, it doesn't influence a repository's classification or language statistics. This hack tends to make a decent halfway-point between misrepresentation and support/recognition on GitHub.com.

[irmen]

author of Prog8 here: thanks for raising this issue. I noticed it as well for my own repositories. Realistically I think it will be quite a long time before we have "hundreds of repositories" that will be using Prog8. While it would be fantastic if it "takes off" (relatively speaking) it's still a very niche and experimental language.