Existing work: Language identification

[danieldk]

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[jbowles]

Natural language detection for Rust with focus on simplicity and performance: whatlang-rs has been in development for 3 years; I've not used it but it looks solid.

[danieldk]

Indeed looks like a solid option that supports a lot of languages. Note though that the Cavnar & Trenkle has been succeeded by more modern and accurate techniques, see e.g.:

https://fasttext.cc/blog/2017/10/02/blog-post.html