Support Wing in GitHub syntax highlighting (linguist)

[eladb]

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Feature Spec

NOTE: This is likely not something we can do right now because GitHub are requiring "in the wild" usage of Wing backed by code search results. It's also something the we would want to do once our syntax stabilizes because it takes about 4 months for them to release an update.

GitHub now recognizes Wing files with syntax highlighting:

1. Any .w file
2. Markdown code blocks: ```w

Any other implications (code search etc).

Use Cases

Obvious

Implementation Notes

See adding-a-language in the contribution guide for linguist.

Component

Other

[github-actions]

Hi,

This issue hasn't seen activity in 60 days. Therefore, we are marking this issue as stale for now. It will be closed after 7 days.
Feel free to re-open this issue when there's an update or relevant information to be added.
Thanks!

[eladb]

Keep

[MarkMcCulloh]

The current guideline for when they would consider adding a new language is here:

• at least 2000 files per extension indexed in the last year (the number you see at the top of the search results), unless the extension is expected to only occur once per repo, then 200 files.
• with a reasonable distribution across unique :user/:repo combinations assessed by manually and randomly clicking through the results.

If particular users are showing a high proportion of the results, I'll manually filter out those users using -user: to reduce their impact on my assessment.

Given this, we're still a while away from being considered.

[Chriscbr]

@MarkMcCulloh any idea how we could support Wing syntax highlighting in our docsite / blog posts? 🤔

[MarkMcCulloh]

The usual solution would highlighting through a remark plugin. Ideally, we could use something we already have for highlighting (either tree-sitter grammar+query or textmate grammar).
I haven't tried it, but shiki seems like a good choice.

plugin + here's how to load our custom grammar

[Chriscbr]

I haven't tried it, but shiki seems like a good choice.

shiki-twoslash also looks pretty cool

[MarkMcCulloh]

I haven't tried it, but shiki seems like a good choice.

shiki-twoslash also looks pretty cool

Yep it's super cool, although unfortunately not reasonably usable for wing. Maybe one day though.

In theory, it could also be possible to create an optimized version of the playground designed for embedding into docs/blogs. That would give us similar lsp powers, with the Console to boot.

[eladb]

Created github-linguist/linguist#6585

[eladb]

I think we qualify for adding Wing to GitHub (query).

[Chriscbr]

To anyone looking for a workaround, you can download this Chrome extension that adds Wing syntax highlighting when you're browsing GitHub: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/winglang-syntax-hightligh/gjnleleianfjpmckmmdeahlklhcdlakj