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minus-squarecbarrick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThis doesn’t work for code bases written in non-English languages. Especially east asian languages. Any line containing an identifier that is also a word would be highlighted. More and more programming languages are supporting unicode identifiers for this use case.
minus-squaremrkite@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoSo it won’t work for 0.0001% of all github projects.
minus-squaresndrtj@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI’d suggest to have the occasional look at the “most popular repos” ranking. It’s about 50% Chinese. Super-interesting sometimes as it shows completely different tech trends.
This doesn’t work for code bases written in non-English languages. Especially east asian languages.
Any line containing an identifier that is also a word would be highlighted.
More and more programming languages are supporting unicode identifiers for this use case.
So it won’t work for 0.0001% of all github projects.
I’d suggest to have the occasional look at the “most popular repos” ranking. It’s about 50% Chinese.
Super-interesting sometimes as it shows completely different tech trends.