.bs

3 claimants 3 primary 0 secondary shared primary (3)

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.

114.6K
total occurrences
35.9K
since 2019 (31.3%)
1970–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .bs (113.4K), .BS (1.1K), .bS (68), .Bs (1) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to Bikeshed; Bikeshed; Bluespec BH; BrighterScript as primary by 4 authoritative claims.

Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✗ Pygments · no claim ✓ Wikidata · Q136526352 ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (4)

Languages that list .bs among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
Bikeshedlinguistprimary
Bikeshedwikidataprimary
Bluespec BHlinguistprimary
BrighterScriptlinguistprimary

Wikidata says… (3)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .bs 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
Bikeshed Q136526352
Specification authoring tool
file format; open-source softwareUse as new PL ↗
Printfox bitmap Q28055391
Printfox (or Printfox/Pagefox) bitmap is a raster graphics format associated with the Printfox and Pagefox desktop publishing programs for the Commodore 64
image file formatbinary:imageUse as new PL ↗
PrintFox/Pagefox bitmap (320x200) Q105859090
file format
file formatapplication/octet-streamUse as new PL ↗

Disambiguation rules (3)

Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a .bs file actually is.
RulePredictsKindPredicates (truncated)
h/linguist/.bs/0Bikeshedpredicates[{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^(?i:<pre\\s+class)\\s*=\\s*('|\\\"|\\b)metadata\\b('|\\\"|\\b)[^>\\r\\n]*>"]}]
h/linguist/.bs/1BrighterScriptpredicates[{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["(?i:^\\s*(?:sub\\s*\\w+\\(.*?\\))|(?::\\s*sub\\(.*?\\))$)", "(?i:^\\s*(end\\ssub)$)", "(?i:^\\s*(?:function\\s*\\w+\\(.*?\\)\\s*as\\s*\\w*)|(?::\\s*function\\(.*?\\)\\s*a
h/linguist/.bs/2Bluespec BHpredicates[{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^package\\s+[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_']*(?:\\s*\\(|\\s+where)"]}]

SWH-mined examples (0)

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

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