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Re:Results of the GitHub Investigation by rurounijones on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @12:20AM (#7625779)
More info? I have never heard of anything bad about Linguist (And I don't know that much about it.).

Googling didnt bring up anything obvious,

Re:Results of the GitHub Investigation by anaphor on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @01:22AM (#7625967)
Parent might be referring to the fact that it can easily give false positives, but I'm not sure.
Re:Results of the GitHub Investigation by bm1362 on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @01:52AM (#7626051)
I think it's the project that does syntax highlighting for the code browser in Github?
Re:Results of the GitHub Investigation by rurounijones on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @02:36AM (#7626137)
It is the software the identifies % of language used in a repository and highlighting etc. https://github.com/github/linguist

I just haven't heard anything bad about it so am curious why OP calls it a "debacle"