.star
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.
141.5K
total files
82.0K
first seen 2021–2025 (57.9%)
2021
median year (half its files since)
Case variants in archive: .star (141.3K), .Star (80), .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) | Measured on SWH |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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.