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`.zig`

2 claimants 2 primary 0 secondary shared primary (2)

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.

417.6K

total occurrences

155.1K

since 2019 (37.1%)

2002–2023

years active

Case variants in archive: .zig (417.6K), .ZIG (14), .Zig (3), .ZIg (1) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to Zig; Zig; 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.

Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗

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. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.

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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