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not likely to be taken down as the CEO tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1118057606159798274

I love how a tongue-in-cheek reply about the lack of syntax highlighting for ZIL files drew the attention of someone who actually implemented syntax highlighting for it.

https://twitter.com/taradinoc/status/1118181848494985216

Who is that handsome mystery developer, where did he come from, and why can't we get enough of him?

We'll probably never know, it's a mystery for the ages.

Rumor has it that he owns http://zilf.io, but that appears to be unfounded

And now it's a PR. By a GitHub engineer even.

https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/4497

And now it's live on GitHub!

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1118647837951004672

It's still possible for Activision/Blizzard to send a DMCA takedown, even if the GitHub CEO is excited about it.

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