Yes, github's language detection is definitely messed up, especially in the C language family. A while ago, a C or C++ source file would be detected as Objective-C if you had a variable called "id" (I think that's been fixed though).
I know it's not truly this simple, but if the file extension is ".ino", I feel like your detection algorithm should be free to use that as a massive indication it is Arduino code.
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Yes, github's language detection is definitely messed up, especially in the C language family. A while ago, a C or C++ source file would be detected as Objective-C if you had a variable called "id" (I think that's been fixed though).
You can override it. I had to provide such an override so that my C++ module files would be reckognised as C++.
A .gitattributes file must be present with something like,
More info here, https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/docs/override...To add to that, Github reads Arduino code as C++.
I know it's not truly this simple, but if the file extension is ".ino", I feel like your detection algorithm should be free to use that as a massive indication it is Arduino code.
…but Arduino code IS c++ code. I don’t believe a distinction would make much sense.
They should throw AI at this problem.