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+# We want fancy syntax highlighting on GitHub, though GitHub doesn't know how
+# to speak Gleam. Until it does (maybe one day!) we'll tell GitHub that these
+# files are Rust, which has a similar enough syntax for the highlighting to
+# work in most cases.
+# The only caveat is that we need to add a `;` after each use of the `type`
+# keyword as our type syntax is different to theirs in a way that confuses
+# GitHub.
+*.gleam linguist-language=Rust
+
+# Erlang files generated by the Gleam compiler
+/gen/*/*.erl linguist-generated=true
+/docs/**/* linguist-generated=true
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-gleam_stdlib
-=====
+# Gleam stdlib
-An OTP library
+Gleam's standard library!
-Build
------
+## Quick reference
- $ rebar3 compile
-
-Run Tests
------
-
- $ rebar3 eunit
+```sh
+# Run the unit tests
+rebar3 eunit
+```