.st
4 claimants
3 primary
0 secondary
shared primary (3)
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.
3.8M
total occurrences
880.8K
since 2019 (23.4%)
1970–2023
years active
Case variants in archive: .st (3.8M), .ST (2.0K), .St (101) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to Smalltalk; Smalltalk; Smalltalk; Squeak; StringTemplate; StringTemplate as primary by 6 authoritative claims.
Claimants (8)
Languages that list
.st among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| Smalltalk | linguist | primary |
| Smalltalk | pygments | primary |
| Smalltalk | wikidata | primary |
| Squeak | pygments | primary |
| StringTemplate | linguist | primary |
| StringTemplate | pygments | primary |
| SenseTalk | wikipedia | proposed |
| Squeak | wikipedia | proposed |
Wikidata says… (8)
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim
.st 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.
| Format | Class (Wikidata P31) | Suggested label | MIME | Notes | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1ST Word Plus Document Q105855808 file format | file format | — | application/octet-stream | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| SawTeeth module Q105863303 file format | file format | — | application/octet-stream | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| SawTeeth module (text format) Q105863123 file format | file format | — | text/plain | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
Disambiguation rules (2)
Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a
.st file actually is.| Rule | Predicts | Kind | Predicates (truncated) |
|---|---|---|---|
h/linguist/.st/0 | StringTemplate | predicates | [{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["\\$\\w+[($]|.!\\s*.+?\\s*!.|<!\\s*.+?\\s*!>|\\[!\\s*.+?\\s*!\\]|\\{!\\s*.+?\\s*!\\}"]}] |
h/linguist/.st/1 | Smalltalk | predicates | [{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["\\A\\s*[\\[{(^\"'\\w#]|[a-zA-Z_]\\w*\\s*:=\\s*[a-zA-Z_]\\w*|class\\s*>>\\s*[a-zA-Z_]\\w*|^[a-zA-Z_]\\w*\\s+[a-zA-Z_]\\w*:|^Class\\s*\\{|if(?:True|False):\\s*\\["]}] |
SWH-mined examples (0)
No archived examples for .st in our local mirror yet.