.orc

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.

812.1K
total files
792.7K
first seen 2021–2025 (97.6%)
2021
median year (half its files since)

Case variants in archive: .orc (811.4K), .ORC (656), .OrC (13), .Orc (13) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to Csound as primary by 2 authoritative claims.

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

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Claimants (2)

Languages that list .orc among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
Csoundlinguistprimary
Csoundpygmentsprimary

Wikidata says… (4)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .orc 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
Apache ORC Q60767426
column-oriented data storage format of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem
free software; file format———Use as new PL ↗
Csound Orchestra Q105855681
file format
file format—audio/csound—Use as new PL ↗
Oracle Password Hash Q122228898
file format
file format———Use as new PL ↗

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.
Csound (1) — 1 via unique-primary
901.orc · 1110 B · seen 14× in SWH
predicted: Csound via unique-primary
swh:1:cnt:eaf5836473c41331c732448204d2c36d99f576f5;origin=https://github.com/JoelNash-Xuuki/DAW;anchor=swh:1:rev:90abcd0c88a64d3b0dc33bdfd93aacd30c69b7c5;path=/src/901.orc
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