Excel Formula Language

Language name

The Excel Formula Language is likely the most popular programming language and with the introduction of LAMBDA, it's even turing complete.

Since fomulas live inside of Excel they are rarely seen as source code, however there are instances of people sharing formulas/lambdas on GitHub, so adding support for it on GitHub could be considered.

URL of example repository

These repos are using simply the .txt file extension:

• https://github.com/MatrixFun/AutoXL
• https://github.com/charl-potgieter/ExcelLambdas

This repo puts the formula in the README directly: https://github.com/UoLeevi/excel

OA Robot is using the .lambda file extension: https://github.com/oehmauto/OARobot/tree/main/Getting%20Started%20Command%20Collection.xlsm%20README/Lambdas

A gist with Excel Lamda functions: https://gist.github.com/wynhopkins/2efdf218ed78be03a0a082ff6a99dad1

URL of syntax highlighting grammar

https://github.com/miguelangelcdm/excel-formula-formatter (Note that the extension is advocating for the .xlf extension)

Most popular extensions

.txt with 1.7k+ results .xlf with ~74 results .lambda with ~100 results .excel with 350+ results

(some search queries might need some improvement for more accurate results)

Detected language

None or XML (when using the .xlf extension)