How to add support for my own programming language in GitHub? #49263
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GitHub uses Linguist to detect languages. You can check their guidelines on adding a new language: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-a-language |
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Hello everyone, I'm the main contributor of CovScript programming language, which has been open-sourced on GitHub for over five years. But every codes written in CovScript now will be detected as
GSC
automatically in GitHub which very confusing. I wonder as a open source community, can I contribute custom language support for GitHub?By the way, CovScript has formal grammar description written in EBNF liked rules, which can be interpret easily using existing tools.
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