mozilla/rust — Issue #1512: Revoke Rust's claim to the `.rc` file extension on GitHub
Author: Wensleydale
Created: 2012-01-14 00:30:13+00:00
State: open

Fun fact: Rust is the 21st-most-popular language on Github:
https://github.com/languages/Rust

Even Linus Torvalds uses Rust!
https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface/graphs/languages

This is just a papercut, but it would be nice if GitHub were told not to count `.rc` files as indicating a Rust project, in order to improve the ability to use GitHub's own tools to track Rust's legitimate popularity. Graydon seemed to approve in IRC:

````
we should probably revoke that classification
syntax highlighting on crate files isn't worth the confusion / collision
crate files hardly contain anything anyways, usually just a simple list
````