Developer Files

Developed by John Gruber, the MARKDOWN extension stores dialects of the Markdown language. It belongs to the developer file category and is a binary format. Users can find these files in other extensions such as MDOWN, MARKDN, and MD. The MARKDOWN files are easily readable in their basic format and are readily convertible to HTML.

Developed by Microsoft, the RC extension refers to resource script files that various software compilers use to store the instructions on how to compile program source files. These belong to the developer files category and are in plain text. It can include references to a plethora of resources such as user interface components, icons, images, […]

The LUA extension refers to files written in the Lua script, a powerful and light-weight embeddable scripting language. It uses a combination of simple procedural syntax with data description constructs. It belongs to the developer files group and is a text-based format. It has found utility in various fields, such as gaming, web applications, extensions, […]

POM, or project object model, files are developer files that were created as an essential tool that is used by Maven – a Java program that is used to build and manage Java applications. Most projects contain the default values until altered. Maven’s program reads the Pom files located in the current directory to learn […]

Pickle files are binary formatted developer files; Python designed modules that possess multiple functions. It allows objects to be converted to files that can be stored on a disk then converted back on the original program at runtime as a saved byte stream of characters that represent the objects that are being converted, or serialized, […]

.CC is the file extension used for a source code file with the C++ program. These text-based developer files may contain one or more source code files that can be stand-alone files or files that are referenced by another outside program. These source codes contain functions that are compiled to be easily understood by the […]

PL – perl script – files are developer files in a text-based format containing source codes written in Perl, a scripted language compiled with a Perl interpreter. The lines of program code contain variables, operations, functions, and comments; all can be difficult to read due to the compact make-up of the Perl language syntax. PL […]

When developers work with Visual Studio, it instantly creates an SLN extension. They use SLN extension files to filter, merge, and compare projects. They are similar to VBG files, which are also used by Visual Basic. Usually, the files keep text-based data for the projects’ environment and state. You can view all the hierarchal preSolution […]

PY files are used for writing scripts using Python programming language. It is a programming language that is object-oriented commonly used for developing various software. You can create and edit PY files in a text editor, although you will need a Python interpreter. The best thing about working with Python is that you can easily […]

The A FILE extension belongs to the developer file category and contains a function or a library of functions that can be used for reference purposes. These are used by C or C++ programming language and are created by GNU AR utility. The A FILE extension is more commonly found in the Unix ecosystem.