#linguist

The language definitions GitHub uses to recognise code (the open-source Linguist data) as an API — a clean reference for syntax highlighting, file-type detection, repository dashboards and developer tooling. For each of 800+ languages the API returns its type (programming, markup, data or prose), its brand colour (the hex GitHub paints it), the file extensions associated with it, common aliases, the GitHub language id and the editor (ace) mode. Look a language up by name or alias (golang resolves to Go), reverse-look-up which language(s) own a file extension (.py → Python; .h → C, C++, Objective-C), list the languages of a type, search, or list them all. Distinct from languages-api (ISO 639 human languages) — this is the programming-language reference. Served from memory — always fast.

api.oanor.com/proglang-api

Una referencia para más de 800 lenguajes de programación, marcado y datos, construida a partir del conjunto de datos GitHub Linguist. Detecta a qué lenguaje pertenece una extensión de archivo (p. ej. .rs → Rust), busca un lenguaje por nombre o alias, obtén su tipo, color de marca, extensiones de archivo y alias, y busca o lista por tipo. Ideal para editores de código, herramientas de sintaxis, analizadores de repositorios y badges de lenguajes. (Lenguajes de programación — no lenguajes hablados.)

api.oanor.com/proglangs-api