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`.zig`

2 claimants 2 primary 0 secondary shared primary (2)

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.

1.3M

total files

1.1M

first seen 2021–2025 (82.0%)

2023

median year (half its files since)

Case variants in archive: .zig (1.3M), .ZIG (15), .Zig (6), .ZIg (1) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to Zig; Zig (programming language) as primary by 4 authoritative claims.

Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✓ Pygments ✓ Wikidata · Q51885456 ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (4)

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

Language	Source	Strength
Zig	linguist	primary
Zig	pygments	primary
Zig	wikidata	primary
Zig (programming language)	pygments	primary

Wikidata says… (1)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .zig 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.

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Format	Class (Wikidata `P31`)	Suggested label	MIME	Notes	Action
Zig file format Q131454123 file format	file format	—	`text/zig`	—	Use as new PL ↗

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.

Zig (1) — 1 via unique-primary

controller_bvh.zig · 21517 B · seen 11× in SWH

predicted: Zig via unique-primary

swh:1:cnt:486e2f4040fae3a9e1318df1b247032357d864da;origin=https://github.com/roma-p/jeanpaul;anchor=swh:1:rev:01a4ca406f2a86b6c5c0531408e3e9d45c8e5191;path=/proto_2/src/controller_bvh.zig

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