.shader

2 claimants 1 primary 1 secondary unambiguous primary

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.

759.5K
total occurrences
283.0K
since 2019 (37.3%)
1970–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .shader (758.9K), .Shader (527), .SHADER (145), .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.
LanguageSourceStrength
shaderlablinguistprimary
GLSLlinguistsecondary

SWH-mined examples (1)

Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.
Scene_Blend.shader · 21415 B · seen 34× in SWH
predicted: shaderlab via unique-primary
swh:1:cnt:0e1d66248b50ecf9234f421147102e40487c394e;origin=https://github.com/Superppig/Ghost-Doc;anchor=swh:1:rev:388457b96ab6a04246ce793e6a8ea11c83d8f3f4;path=/Assets/Shader/Scene_Blend.shader
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