.hrl

2 claimants 0 primary 2 secondary secondary-only

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.

190.7K
total files
35.6K
first seen 2021–2025 (18.7%)
2017
median year (half its files since)

Case variants in archive: .hrl (190.6K), .HRL (19), .HRl (2), .Hrl (2) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to Erlang — every claim across all sources (including secondary ones) points to a single language.

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

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Claimants (4)

Languages that list .hrl among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
Erlanglinguistsecondary
Erlangpygmentssecondary
Erlang (programming language)pygmentssecondary
Erlangwikipediaproposed

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.
Erlang (1) — 1 via fallback
rabbit_msg_store.hrl · 799 B · seen 75× in SWH
predicted: Erlang via fallback
swh:1:cnt:e9150a97b3e2592d8f9a9ab307144a66fc347259;origin=https://github.com/2600hz-archive/whistle;anchor=swh:1:rev:d20749b7009ae05896861a9a266cb7f0eaf3317a;path=/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.4.1/include/rabbit_msg_store.hrl
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