[Github-comments] [geany/geany] RFC: New Grouping of filetypes (#2087)

[Matthew Brush]

I haven't thought deeply on this, but for programing/scripting languages, one way could be to break them up in their general syntax style, for an incomplete example:

* Pascal-style
  - Ada
  - Pascal
  - Coffeescript
  - Lua
  - Ruby

* C-style
  - C
  - C++
  - C#
  - D
  - Go
  - JS
  - Java
  - Rust
  - Vala

* Python-style
  - Python
  - Genie
  - Nim

* Lisp & Functional-style
  - Lisp
  - Scheme
  - Clojure
  - Erlang
  - Haskell

It wouldn't be perfect, and the "C-style" group would have a lot of languages, but at least it's better than the incorrect/non-existent distinction of "Programming" vs "Scripting".

Another more obvious way would be to group them alphabetically, collapsing ranges of letters together where there aren't very many languages (to avoid a large 26 item menu with few items in each submenu).

Just a couple ideas.

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