How am I supposed to name readme files? My first inclination is all
lowercase, .md. Most are capitalized. Some are .markdown. I have a
soft spot in my heart for textile, but does anybody use it anymore?
What does everybody else do? Here are the simplest possible statistics I can grab through github’s search. (It doesn’t discern upper from lower case, which is a bummer.)
{README,Readme,readme}.{md,markdown,textile,…}
| # | extension |
| 7,061,887 | md |
| 386,111 | markdown |
| 291,675 | rdoc |
| 63,555 | rst |
| 37,384 | textile |
| 20,999 | org |
| 18,532 | mdown |
| 3,007 | pod |
| 2,263 | creole |
| 1,073 | asciidoc |
| 1,066 | mediawiki |
| 553 | adoc |
| 486 | wiki |
| 143 | rest |
| 54 | asc |
| 26 | lhs |
TODO: how can I search by case? I’d love to know if README beats
Readme or readme.