Registry of programming languages for the Linguist program for detecting and highlighting programming languages.

Prefix
linguist
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Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Linguist should match this regular expression:
^[a-zA-Z0-9 +#'*]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
Python   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Linguist should match this regular expression:
^linguist:[a-zA-Z0-9 +#'*]+$

Example CURIE
linguist:Python
Metaregistry Linguist

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 1 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam linguist
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier Python is used to demonstrate the providers available for Linguist. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Linguist linguist https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/linguist/master/lib/linguist/languages.yml#Python
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/linguist:Python
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/linguist:Python