.scala

3 claimants 2 primary 0 secondary shared primary (2)

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.

37.2M
total occurrences
12.8M
since 2019 (34.3%)
1970–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .scala (37.2M), .Scala (1.1K), .SCALA (21) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to Scala; Scala; Scala; Scala (programming language) as primary by 4 authoritative claims.

Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✓ Pygments ✓ Wikidata · Q460584 △ Wikipedia · secondary

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Claimants (5)

Languages that list .scala among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
Scalalinguistprimary
Scalapygmentsprimary
Scalawikidataprimary
Scala (programming language)pygmentsprimary
Kojowikipediaproposed

Wikidata says… (1)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .scala 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
Scala source code file Q126951861
file format
file formattext/x-scalaUse as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (0)

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