.ftl

2 claimants 2 primary 0 secondary shared primary (2)

SWH popularity

Distinct files in the full Software Heritage archive (2026-06-04 export), dated by first appearance, following Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz (MSR 2025). Case-aggregated. citation.

3.4M
total files
996.9K
first seen 2021–2025 (29.1%)
2018
median year (half its files since)

Case variants in archive: .ftl (3.4M), .FTL (89), .Ftl (5), .ftL (1) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to Fluent; FreeMarker as primary by 2 authoritative claims.

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

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Claimants (2)

Languages that list .ftl among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
Fluentlinguistprimary
FreeMarkerlinguistprimary

Wikidata says… (3)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .ftl 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
Family Tree Legends data Q105855355
file format
file format———Use as new PL ↗
Faster Than Light mod Q105855192
file format
file format———Use as new PL ↗
FTL file Q135267112
file format
file format———Use as new PL ↗

Disambiguation rules (2)

Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a .ftl file actually is.
RulePredictsKindPredicates (truncated)Measured on SWH
h/linguist/.ftl/0FreeMarkerpredicates[{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^(?:<|[a-zA-Z-][a-zA-Z0-9_-]+[ \\t]+\\w)|\\$\\{\\w+[^\\r\\n]*?\\}|^[ \\t]*(?:<#--.*?-->|<#(?:[a-z]+)\\s[^>]*>.*?</#(?:[a-z]+)>|\\[#--.*?--\\]|\\[#(?:[a-z]+)\\s[^\\]]*\\].
h/linguist/.ftl/1Fluentpredicates[{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^-?[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]* *=|\\{\\$-?[a-zA-Z][-\\w]*(?:\\.[a-zA-Z][-\\w]*)?\\}"]}]

SWH-mined examples (1)

Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive, grouped by predicted language and by how the prediction was made. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.
FreeMarker (1) — 1 via Linguist heuristic
bidDocuments.ftl · 78662 B · seen 163× in SWH
predicted: FreeMarker via heuristic
swh:1:cnt:0c57416f27776dc4173712740ec512b6bf510fc6;origin=https://github.com/xuqing196101/check_inves;anchor=swh:1:rev:89d3e1331f7b3d326e4a659af31fbf9de64ecc9a;path=/src/main/java/ses/document/template/bidDocuments.ftl
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