But why ?
https://github.com/Aaronepower/tokei is written in Rust and does a great job detecting languages.

Is that what Onefetch currently uses? It detects C++ as C in the case of Godot, and it didn't detect anything for the repo of a Godot project (while GitHub detects GDScript).

it only detects the languages that are currently supported by onefetch (WIP):

C
Clojure
C++
C#
Go
Haskell
Java
Lisp
Lua
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Shell
TypeScript
JavaScript
Php

Also tokei ignores all commented lines which is why the language distribution sometimes differs from GH.

Supported languages by tokei --> https://github.com/Aaronepower/tokei#supported-languages

Upstream issues: XAMPPRocky/tokei#305 and XAMPPRocky/tokei#67

We can leave this closed though if you want.

Ok, with the new title it makes more sense to keep this open.

We'll wait for tokei to fix it then.

Thx @aaronfranke

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This issue still exists, though it is likely seen by the devs as low priority, so I'll probably have to bump this again later to please the stale bot.

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Hey everyone following this 👋

There's been a bit of discussion here, but to keep you all up to date: I went ahead and started a project called gengo that should be more linguist-like, to hopefully improve our language detection eventually. Unlike tokei, there can be file extension collisions, and gengo will try to pick the right language using heuristics. For example, for this comment, it would need to register ts as an XML file extension, and include a heuristic to be confident that the .ts file is actually XML.

But right now, gengo doesn't support nearly enough languages. While I can just grab the data from linguist (and maybe I eventually will), right now I'm hoping that language support grows more organically, with discussion for each added language. So if you'd like to contribute, please do! I'll definitely need help with languages that I'm unfamiliar with, especially when it comes to adding heuristics, for example for C and C++ .h header files.

Edit: See spenserblack/gengo#34