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`.shader`

2 claimants 1 primary 1 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.

999.6K

total files

396.5K

first seen 2021–2025 (39.7%)

2020

median year (half its files since)

Case variants in archive: .shader (998.7K), .Shader (760), .SHADER (154), .ShAder (1) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to shaderlab as primary by 1 authoritative claim.

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

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Claimants (2)

Languages that list .shader among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.

Language	Source	Strength
shaderlab	linguist	primary
GLSL	linguist	secondary

Disambiguation rules (2)

Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a .shader file actually is.

Rule	Predicts	Kind	Predicates (truncated)	Measured on SWH
`h/linguist/.shader/0`	shaderlab	predicates	`[{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["(?i)^[ \\t](?:Shader[ \\t]+\"[^\"\\r\\n]+\"\|SubShader)[ \\t\\r\\n]\\{"]}]`
`h/linguist/.shader/1`	GLSL	predicates	`[{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["\\A[ \\t\\r\\n]#[ \\t]version[ \\t]+[0-9]{3}(?:[ \\t]+(?:core\|compatibility\|es))?[ \\t](?://[^\\r\\n])?(?:\\r?\\n\|\\z)"]}]`

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.

shaderlab (1) — 1 via unique-primary

Scene_Blend.shader · 21415 B · seen 34× in SWH

predicted: shaderlab via unique-primary

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