Guesslang

Guesslang detects the programming language of a given source code:

echo '
package main
import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("My mascot is a gopher and Google loves me. Who am I?")
}

' | guesslang

# ⟶ Programming language: Go

Guesslang supports 54 programming languages:

Languages
Assembly	Batchfile	C	C#	C++
Clojure	CMake	COBOL	CoffeeScript	CSS
CSV	Dart	DM	Dockerfile	Elixir
Erlang	Fortran	Go	Groovy	Haskell
HTML	INI	Java	JavaScript	JSON
Julia	Kotlin	Lisp	Lua	Makefile
Markdown	Matlab	Objective-C	OCaml	Pascal
Perl	PHP	PowerShell	Prolog	Python
R	Ruby	Rust	Scala	Shell
SQL	Swift	TeX	TOML	TypeScript
Verilog	Visual Basic	XML	YAML

With a guessing accuracy higher than 90%.

Apps powered by Guesslang

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, automatic language detection

Visual Studio Code detects the programming language of the source code that you paste into the editor using Guesslang machine learning model.

Chameledit

Chameledit is a simple web-editor that automatically highlights your code.

Other projects...

• Pasta, the Slack bot that pretty-pastes source code.
• GG, a silly guessing game.

Documentation

• Guesslang documentation is available at https://guesslang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

• Guesslang language detection explained here https://guesslang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contents.html#how-does-guesslang-guess

• Guesslang is based on Tensorflow machine learning framework

Installation

• Python 3.7+ is required

• Install the latest stable version:

pip3 install guesslang

• or install Guesslang from source code:

pip3 install .

• Windows specific

To run Tensorflow on Microsoft Windows you need to install Visual C++ runtime libraries, available on Microsoft website

Guesslang command line

• Show all available options

guesslang --help

• Detect the programming language of /etc/bashrc configuration file:

guesslang /etc/bashrc

# ⟶ Programming language: Shell

• Detect the programming language of a given text:

echo '
/** Turn command line arguments to uppercase */
object Main {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val res = for (a <- args) yield a.toUpperCase
    println("Arguments: " + res.toString)
  }
}
' | guesslang

# ⟶ Programming language: Scala

• Show the detection probabilities for a given source code:

echo "
def qsort(items):
    if not items:
        return []
    else:
        pivot = items[0]
        less = [x for x in items if x <  pivot]
        more = [x for x in items[1:] if x >= pivot]
        return qsort(less) + [pivot] + qsort(more)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    items = [1, 4, 2, 7, 9, 3]
    print(f'Sorted: {qsort(items)}')

" | guesslang --probabilities

# Language name       Probability
#  Python               74.80%
#  Haskell               6.73%
#  CoffeeScript          5.32%
#  Groovy                1.95%
#  Markdown              0.93%
#  ...

Guesslang Python package

• Guesslang can be used as a Python package. Package documentation available here

from guesslang import Guess


guess = Guess()

name = guess.language_name("""
    % Quick sort

    -module (recursion).
    -export ([qsort/1]).

    qsort([]) -> [];
    qsort([Pivot|T]) ->
          qsort([X || X <- T, X < Pivot])
          ++ [Pivot] ++
          qsort([X || X <- T, X >= Pivot]).
""")

print(name)  # ⟶ Erlang

License and credits

• Guesslang documentation

• Gesslang training dataset created with GuesslangTools

• Guesslang developped with Tensorflow

• Guesslang icon created with AndroidAssetStudio and Eduardo Tunni's Warnes font

• Example source codes used here retrieved from Rosetta Code

• Guesslang — Copyright (c) 2021 Y. SOMDA, MIT License