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@okofish okofish commented Oct 13, 2025

Rename Mathematica to Wolfram Language, the current official name of the language used in Wolfram Research products.
Also, add .wls (Wolfram Language script) to the list of extensions.

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Disclosure: I am making this PR on behalf of my employer, Wolfram Research.
Mathematica, Wolfram Research's first product, originally had no distinct name for the language it implements, so that language came to be known de facto as "Mathematica" or the "Mathematica language". To rectify this, Wolfram introduced the "Wolfram Language" brand a little over 10 years ago; Wolfram Language (https://www.wolfram.com/language/) is the language implemented by multiple Wolfram products including Mathematica, Wolfram|One, and Wolfram Cloud. This PR attempts to reflect the current state of terminology by updating the language name in Linguist to "Wolfram Language".

There was a previous attempt to make the same change in 2020, but the PR (#4912) unfortunately got abandoned.
Some other relevant discussion and PRs: #3391, #5232

I also made two enhancements to the language spec.

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LGTM. Thanks.

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Merged via the queue into github-linguist:main with commit 2409807 Oct 13, 2025
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