.abc

2 claimants 1 primary 0 secondary unambiguous primary

SWH popularity

From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.

297.8K
total occurrences
157.0K
since 2019 (52.7%)
1970–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .abc (296.8K), .ABC (978), .Abc (5) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to alembic as primary by 1 authoritative claim.

Authoritative sources: ✗ Linguist · no claim ✗ Pygments · no claim ✓ Wikidata · Q795136 △ Wikipedia · secondary

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Claimants (2)

Languages that list .abc among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
alembicwikidataprimary
Cleanwikipediaproposed

Wikidata says… (7)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .abc on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
Alembic Q795136
file format
file formatUse as new PL ↗
ABC FlowCharter document Q105854747
file format
file formatapplication/octet-streamUse as new PL ↗
ABC notation (old) Q105853653
file format
file formattext/vnd.abcUse as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (0)

No archived examples for .abc in our local mirror yet.

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