Some suggestions of engineering formats/languages

[Mehver]

I'm a noob programmer, but I also a noob hardware developer 🤯

Although there is also a lot of open source hardware in GitHub, many hardware engineers have no idea with linguist. This is probably why I keep getting unsupported hardware formats when editing .gitattributes. So now I list up some common engineering formats, hoping to get support.

It is worth mentioning that some common formats in hardware design already exist in languages.yml. Such as KiCAD Altium Designer Eagle Gerber Image Wavefront Object STL... Yes, none of them are programming languages, they are considered as data by default, and the identification of these file types must be manually increased in .gitattributes. But it still makes sense to expose these formats as languages, because it really helps hardware designers quickly find the items they need.

It's really important to differentiate these formats from design softwares with language statistics. Because like when a Python developers is looking for sorting algorithms, they wouldn't expect to find a repo written in Java. That's why I wrote an all-in-one .gitattributes and use it in all my hardware projects.

Those formats below are what I wish to add support for. They are similar to the existing ones, also files of circuit design software or files of 3D/2D design softwares:

1 LCEDA (a.k.a EasyEDA) -->【Wikipedia】<--

A free circuit design software. Similar to KiCAD, Eagle and Altium Designer.

Extension		Search	Results
.json (PCB file)	keyword: editorVersion canvas shape	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Ajson+editorVersion+canvas+shape&type=Code	1301
.json (SCH file)	keyword: editorVersion canvas schematics	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Ajson+editorVersion+canvas+schematics&type=Code	279
.eprj	original format, the only	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Aeprj&type=Code	135
.epcb	original format, the only	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Aepcb&type=Code	3
.esch	original format, the only	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Aesch&type=Code	7
.elib	not unique	/	/

2 Autodesk Fushion 360 -->【Wikipedia】<--

An industrial modeling design software that is very popular among hardware enthusiasts. It has a compositional relationship with Eagle.

Extension		Search	Results
.f3d	original format, the only	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Af3d&type=Code	16656

3 Computer Aided Design (CAD) -->【Wikipedia】<--

Common format standard. The CAD file in the narrow sense refers to .dwg and .dxf format, which is the most suitable format for CAD packages. The most mainstream CAD package is AutoCAD.

Extension	Search	Results
.dwg	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Adwg&type=Code	73803
.dxf	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Adxf&type=Code	143039

4 Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) -->【Wikipedia】<--

Common format standard. Extensive CAD.

Extension	Search	Results
.iges	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Aiges&type=Code	2769
.igs	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Aigs&type=Code	8276

5 STEP -->【Wikipedia】<--

Common format standard. Also extensive CAD, ISO_10303-21.

Extension	Search	Results
.stp	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Astp&type=Code	203425
.step	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Astep&type=Code	283678
.stpnc	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Astpnc&type=Code	3
.p21	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Ap21&type=Code	324
.210	https://github.com/search?q=extension%3A210&type=Code	4255

[Mehver]

I wish I could open PR to add these languages. However, I only understand the languages.yml file, but have no idea with Ruby.

[charlieforward9]

I agree with this. It would be nice to have .stl and .f3d show up in the language stats.

[DecimalTurn]

@Mehver If you're having issues with setting up Ruby on your machine, you could always use the Codespace feature (see the button at the top of the README). Using the codespace, you'll be able to have a vitrual environement with all you need to run the scripts required to add a new language to Linguist.