Automatically populate the list of languages using Linguist

[pchaigno]

GitHub uses Linguist (Ruby gem name is github-linguist) to identify the languages of repositories. Contribulator could use it to retrieve the list of supported languages.
There are a good number of supported languages so it would require a few changes to the web UI.

Would you consider this?

[wadtech]

Hi @pchaigno

Thanks for your suggestion. Seems sensible to me.

Would you be interested in opening a PR for this? I'm happy to help where I can.

[andrew]

I've actually made a gem that would be useful for this: https://github.com/librariesio/languages

github-linguist has some dependencies that are difficult to install on heroku so I extracted just the language sections out into a separate gem to make it easy to use, @pchaigno you could use that to get all the languages:

Languages::Language.all #=> [#<Languages::Language name=ActionScript color=#e3491a>, ..]

[wadtech]

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