Add Language: VisionScript

[capjamesg]

Language name

VisionScript

VisionScript is an abstract programming language for doing common computer vision tasks, fast.

The language is new and in an early stage of development. I want people to be able to make interesting, fun visual applications in a few minutes, without any programming experience. (You can make an app that counts how many people are in a room in ~5 lines of code!)

To that end, I'm working on different modalities of usage (i.e. via Notebooks, paper-powered programming, and more) so that there are multiple entry paths for learning the language.

Inclusion in Linguist would be a boon to helping more advanced learners read VisionScript on GitHub.

URL of example repository

• https://github.com/capjamesg/visionscript-examples

URL of syntax highlighting grammar

• https://github.com/capjamesg/visionscript-textmate-grammar/blob/main/syntaxes/vic.tmLanguage.json

Most popular extensions

VisionScript has two extensions:

• .vic: VisionScript programs.
• .vicnb: VisionScript Notebooks, for use in the Notebook programming environment.

Detected language

To the extent I can see, GitHub does not identify .vic files as another programming language.

[johnmays]

I don't think it will be possible to add VisionScript for a while. There is a language popularity requirement (#5756) which states that each extension has to have at least 2000 unique files on GitHub to be added. Currently, it looks like:
-.vic only has 171 files
-.vicnb has 0 files

[capjamesg]

Thank you for the information! I will close this PR for now.