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Add Blueprint markup language

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#7,270 opened on Mar 9, 2025

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Description

Blueprint is a markup language for GTK 4 user interfaces. Currently found in more than 2k Github repositories

Language name

Blueprint

URL of example repository

https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles

URL of syntax highlighting grammar

The language documentation has some information

Most popular extensions

.blp

Detected language

Other

Contributor guide

Research direction
Examine Linguist's language definitions in the 'lib/linguist/languages.yml' file and existing grammar files (e.g., 'grammars/') to learn the format. Then, create a new grammar for Blueprint markup language based on its documentation and add an entry in languages.yml.
Tech stack
ruby
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developer experience
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Feature
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3
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Half day
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Clear
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GitRuby
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70