File programming language detector and toolbox to ignore binary or vendored files. *enry*, started as a port to _Go_ of the original [linguist](https://github.com/github/linguist) _Ruby_ library, that has an improved *2x performance*.
Note that even if enry's CLI is compatible with linguist's, its main point is that, contrary to linguist, **_enry doesn't need a git repository to work!_**
*enry* re-uses parts of original [linguist](https://github.com/github/linguist) to generate internal data structures. In order to update to latest upstream and generate the necessary code you must run:
For the moment we don't have any procedure established to detect changes in the linguist project automatically and regenerate the code. So we are updating the generated code as needed, without any specific criteria.
If you want update *enry* because of changes in linguist, you can run the *go generate* command and do a pull request that only contains the changes in generated files (those files in the subdirectory [data](https://github.com/src-d/enry/tree/master/data)).
Using [linguist/samples](https://github.com/github/linguist/tree/master/samples) as a set against run tests the following issues were found:
* with [hello.ms](https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/samples/Unix%20Assembly/hello.ms) we can't detect the language (Unix Assembly) because we don't have a matcher in contentMatchers (content.go) for Unix Assembly. Linguist uses this [regexp](https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/heuristics.rb#L300) in its code,
* all files for SQL language fall to the classifier because we don't parse this [disambiguator expresion](https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/heuristics.rb#L433) for `*.sql` files right. This expression doesn't comply with the pattern for the rest of [heuristics.rb](https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/heuristics.rb) file.
Enry's language detection has been compared with Linguist's language detection. In order to do that, linguist's project directory [*linguist/samples*](https://github.com/github/linguist/tree/master/samples) was used as a set of files to run benchmarks against.
The histogram represents the number of files for which spent time in language detection was in the range of the time interval indicated in x axis.
So reviewing the comparison enry/linguist, you can see the most of the files were detected in less time than linguist does.
We detected some few cases enry turns slower than linguist. This is due to Golang's regexp engine being slower than Ruby's, which uses [oniguruma](https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma) library, written in C.
You can find scripts and additional information (as software and hardware used, and benchmarks' results per sample file) in [*benchmarks*](https://github.com/src-d/enry/tree/master/benchmarks) directory.
If you want to reproduce the same experiment you can run:
benchmarks/run.sh
from the root's project directory and It runs benchmarks for enry and linguist, parse the output, create csv files and create a histogram (you must have installed [gnuplot](http://gnuplot.info) in your system to get the histogram). It can take to much time, so to run local benchmarks to take a quick look you can run either:
make benchmarks
to get time averages for main detection function and strategies for the whole samples set or:
In the movie [My Fair Lady](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady), [Professor Henry Higgins](http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0011719/?ref_=tt_cl_t2) is one of the main characters. Henry is a linguist and at the very beginning of the movie enjoys guessing the nationality of people based on their accent.
`Enry Iggins` is how [Eliza Doolittle](http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0011720/?ref_=tt_cl_t1), [pronounces](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwNKyTktDIE) the name of the Professor during the first half of the movie.
