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[ShalokShalom]

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This repo is almosts entirely written in Rust, and the language bar shows Javascript instead.
https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-linux-shell?tab=readme-ov-file

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[milentijev1c]

This isn’t actually a bug 🙂

GitHub determines the language breakdown automatically using a tool called Linguist. It scans the repository and calculates percentages based on file types and extensions, not on what the “main” implementation language is.

Even if the project is almost entirely written in Rust, the presence of small .js files (for scripts, tooling, web assets, etc.) will still be detected and included in the language statistics. If JavaScript appears in the language bar, it simply means there are JavaScript files in the repository, not that the core application is written in JavaScript.

You can even customize or override this behavior using a .gitattributes file if needed.

So the language bar reflects file composition, not architectural intent.

[ShalokShalom]

Its supposed to be determined by either the amount of files or lines, but neither is reflective of the statistics in this specific repo?

[milentijev1c]

GitHub doesn’t calculate the language bar by number of files. It’s based on the total number of bytes per language, as detected by Linguist.

That means a single large file can outweigh many small ones. It also ignores certain files depending on how they’re classified (vendored code, generated files, minified assets, etc.), and it may exclude directories like target/ or other build outputs automatically.

So if the percentages don’t seem to match a simple “file count” or “visible line count,” it’s usually because:

• The calculation is byte-based, not file-based

• Some files are excluded from statistics

• Some files might be classified differently than expected

The language bar reflects repository composition at a technical level, not necessarily how much of the core logic is written in a given language.