Simply to use clojure syntax highlighting on GitHub for Janet files - makes things look nice. It would be great to contribute a grammar to linguist, but I’m not sure janet quite meets the requirements for a language to be included in linguist (although they are quite inclusive, so maybe they will).

See https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/blob/master/.gitattributes

Neat, I didn't know about that - very nice.

Preface: I'm commenting as a casual observer, not a Linguist contributor.

The Linguist guideline says "In most cases we prefer that each new file extension be in use in hundreds of repositories before supporting them in Linguist."

I’m not sure janet quite meets the requirements for a language to be included in linguist (although they are quite inclusive, so maybe they will).

As of today, GitHub search shows 247 code results for .janet files. This 247 number indicates files. There appears to be no way to view code extensions by repository, so these code results would need a few hundred more to show the likelihood of "hundreds of repositories."

That said, there are precedents with <2k code results (example: MLIR grammar in pull request #4610) and Janet repositories can remain very small, ~2 .janet files for a complete project (project.janet and a source file). Further, 800+ stars on Janet supports evidence of a growing community.

Looking at recent Linguist pull requests, a successful Janet addition appears likely.

Well, seems unlikely in the near future. At least we tried 🤷‍♂️

Closing for now, may reopen if the issue is relevant again (more traction on GitHub).