.gsc
1 claimant
1 primary
0 secondary
unambiguous primary
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.
187.2K
total files
123.1K
first seen 2021–2025 (65.7%)
2022
median year (half its files since)
Case variants in archive: .gsc (177.6K), .GSC (9.6K), .Gsc (1), .gSc (1) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to GSC as primary by 1 authoritative claim.
Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✗ Pygments · no claim ✗ Wikidata · no claim ✗ Wikipedia · no claim
Claimants (1)
Languages that list
.gsc among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| GSC | linguist | primary |
Wikidata says… (2)
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim
.gsc 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.
| Format | Class (Wikidata P31) | Suggested label | MIME | Notes | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Conquest 2 game data archvie Q105856861 file format | file format | — | application/octet-stream | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| GS-Calc workbook Q105856868 file format | file format | — | application/octet-stream | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
Disambiguation rules (1)
Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a
.gsc file actually is.| Rule | Predicts | Kind | Predicates (truncated) | Measured on SWH |
|---|---|---|---|---|
h/linguist/.gsc/0 | GSC | predicates | [{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^\\s*#\\s*(?:using|insert|include|define|namespace)[ \\t]+\\w", "^\\s*((?:autoexec|private)\\s+){0,2}function\\s+((?:autoexec|private)\\s+){0,2}\\w+\\s*\\(", "\\b(?:level |
SWH-mined examples (0)
No archived examples for .gsc in our local mirror yet.