Suggestion: comparison with existing programming language detection tools

[DonaldTsang]

It seems that some have claimed that their project of predicting programming languages has a higher accuracy than HL.js, is it possible to take a look and see what makes it so special?

• https://github.com/andreasjansson/language-detection.el#model-performance
• https://github.com/github/linguist
• https://github.com/blakeembrey/node-language-detect
• https://github.com/ts95/lang-detector
• https://github.com/Prev/shaman
• https://github.com/src-d/enry#benchmarks
• https://github.com/polyrabbit/polyglot
• https://github.com/dayvonjersen/linguist
• https://github.com/blackducksoftware/ohcount4j
• https://github.com/yoeo/guesslang
• https://github.com/jdkato/codetype

[joshgoebel]

some have claimed

Obviously "some" doing some "claiming" is a pretty worthless standard. :-)

Closing as a duplicate of #1213. Feel free to drop your comments over on that thread though. Thanks!

Surely worth taking a look into if anyone ever finds the time. Auto-detection doesn't seem to be a super high priority though - though eventually I plan to swing back around to it.