.star
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.
94.9K
total occurrences
50.2K
since 2019 (52.9%)
1970–2023
years active
Case variants in archive: .star (94.8K), .Star (78), .STAR (30) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to star as primary by 1 authoritative claim.
Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✗ Pygments · no claim ✗ Wikidata · no claim △ Wikipedia · secondary
Claimants (3)
Languages that list
.star among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| star | linguist | primary |
| Starlark | linguist | secondary |
| Starlark | wikipedia | proposed |
Disambiguation rules (2)
Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a
.star file actually is.| Rule | Predicts | Kind | Predicates (truncated) |
|---|---|---|---|
h/linguist/.star/0 | star | predicates | [{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^loop_\\s*$"]}] |
h/linguist/.star/1 | Starlark | default | [] |
SWH-mined examples (0)
No archived examples for .star in our local mirror yet.