Add Java, Kotlin, Rust, Ruby, C#, Dart, Lua, and Perl highlighting

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Java, Kotlin, Rust, Ruby, C#, Dart, Lua, and Perl fences currently fall back to plaintext. This adds an isolated definition for each, registers them in the default entry, and exposes them as selective imports (@tanstack/highlight/languages/<name>).

Language	Export	Aliases	Context-aware behavior
C#	csharp	c#, cs	Verbatim, interpolated, and raw strings with nested quotes, character literals, preprocessor directives, line-leading and parameter attributes, contextual and LINQ keywords
Dart	dart	-	Interpolated strings with nested quotes and braces, triple-quoted and raw strings, nested block comments, annotations, named-argument labels, contextual keywords
Java	java	-	Text blocks, character literals, annotations, contextual keywords, digit separators and hex floats
Kotlin	kotlin	kt, kts	String templates with nested quotes and braces, raw strings, nested block comments, annotations vs labels, backticked names, contextual soft keywords and accessors
Lua	lua	-	Level-matched long-bracket strings and comments, string escapes, Luau backtick strings, shebang lines, paren-less calls, LuaJIT number suffixes
Perl	perl	pl	Sigil and special variables, quote-like operators with nested delimiters, regex vs division, heredocs, POD blocks
Ruby	ruby	rb	Interpolated strings with nested quotes, percent literals, heredocs, regex vs division, symbols and hash keys, block comments
Rust	rust	rs	Nested block comments, raw strings with hash counts, byte and C strings, lifetimes vs character literals, attributes, macros

Why they fit a small docs highlighter: each is one module built on the existing patternTokenizer / collectPatternRanges helpers, with a small linear scanner for comments and strings where regexes alone get the boundaries wrong (the same shape as php.ts). No new token classes, no new dependencies, no cross-language imports, and no changes to core or to existing language modules.

The branch is one commit per language (module + tests) followed by one registration commit (default entry, barrel, size and bench profiles, fixtures, docs tables, changeset), so a single language can be reviewed or dropped on its own.

Size tradeoff

Selective profiles (core + one language), local Node 26:

Profile	Minified	Gzip	Brotli	Gzip budget
Lua	5.51 KB	2.62 KB	2.43 KB	2.75 KB
Java	6.38 KB	2.99 KB	2.73 KB	3.1 KB
Rust	6.63 KB	3.05 KB	2.82 KB	3.2 KB
Dart	6.80 KB	3.15 KB	2.89 KB	3.25 KB
Kotlin	7.26 KB	3.37 KB	3.10 KB	3.5 KB
Ruby	7.55 KB	3.52 KB	3.25 KB	3.65 KB
Perl	7.69 KB	3.63 KB	3.36 KB	3.75 KB
C#	7.79 KB	3.64 KB	3.33 KB	3.75 KB

Core and every existing selective profile are unchanged. The all-language convenience entry grows from 30.72 / 10.77 / 9.79 KB to 49.99 / 16.82 / 15.19 KB (minified / gzip / Brotli), and its budget rises from 10.9 KB to 17.1 KB gzip. That is the cost of following the existing convention of registering every shipped language in the default entry; if you would rather keep some of these out of allLanguages, that is a small change to the last commit.

Deliberate limits

Common to all eight: an interpolated string is a single string token (its end is found correctly through nested quotes and braces, but the interpolation itself is not tokenized); generic < / > are operators; single-letter type parameters and ALL_CAPS constants stay plain; no standard-library lists.

• C#: attributes are detected at line start or right after ( / ,, first attribute of a list only; PascalCase parameters and record positional parameters read as types; a PascalCase word before = reads as a property; holes in single-line strings cannot span lines.
• Dart: comments inside ${} are not recognised; #symbol literals stay plain; identifier map keys read as labels; generic calls foo<T>( are not marked as functions.
• Java: package / import paths stay plain; labels and lambda parameters stay plain; module directives are recognised at line start only.
• Kotlin: package / import paths stay plain; calls to PascalCase names are functions, other PascalCase is a type; comments inside ${} are not recognised; .5 without a leading digit is plain.
• Lua: no type class (Luau annotations stay plain); self is plain; Luau-only number forms (0b…, 1_000) are unclassified.
• Perl: slash regexes and non-bracket m / s / tr / y / qr never span lines (unclosed on the line falls back to plain code); only print say die bless are coloured without parentheses; file tests and <*.glob> are operators plus plain text; POD is any column-0 =word line through =cut.
• Ruby: regex vs division and percent literal vs modulo are decided from the preceding token, so unusual spacing such as a /b/ or a %(b) reads as a literal; a /regex/ must close on its line; bare <<ID heredocs need an uppercase label; no ?a character literals or __END__ section.
• Rust: lifetimes and labels use meta; ident! is a function only before (, [, {; path segments stay plain; tuple access t.0.1 stays plain.

Notes

• Swift is intentionally not included because Add Swift and PowerShell highlighting with rich language showcases #26 already adds it. This PR and Add Swift and PowerShell highlighting with rich language showcases #26 edit the same shared lists and size numbers, so whichever lands second needs a rebase; happy to do that here.
• xml is unchanged (still an alias of html).
• docs/guides/performance.md quoted a CI-measured all-language gzip figure. I could not measure CI compression locally, so that sentence now states the docs-profile CI figure only, and the all-language budget keeps about 280 bytes above the local measurement. If CI lands above it I will adjust the budget.

Validation

• pnpm run verify passes locally on Node 26.4.0: typecheck, build, docs verification, skills validation, publint, package and packed-runtime checks, 202 tests in 19 files (115 before), 25 size profiles, and 20 benchmark profiles.
• Each language has its own suite (test/<name>.test.ts): a realistic showcase sample, focused regressions for every context-aware behaviour, negative cases for delimiters inside the wrong context, aliases, and plaintext fallback. Every assertion also checks byte-for-byte source reconstruction.
• Each module went through an independent review pass against realistic documentation samples (framework code, library READMEs, test suites, scripts), with Shiki as a directional reference; every issue fixed there has a regression assertion.
• Each tokenizer was timed on ~60k-character repeated-delimiter inputs (unterminated strings, comments, heredocs, interpolation openers) and stays under 25 ms per input.
• Dedicated benchmark profiles, median ms for 10,000 blocks (budget 1,200 ms): Lua 94, Java 124, Kotlin 135, Ruby 138, Dart 149, C# 153, Rust 168, Perl 206.
• pnpm run changeset:status: one minor bump for @tanstack/highlight.

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The highlighter adds C#, Dart, Java, Kotlin, Lua, Perl, Ruby, and Rust language definitions. The change registers their names and aliases, adds tests and measurement profiles, and updates language and bundle-size documentation.

Changes

Additional language support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Implement language tokenizers src/languages/{csharp,dart,java,kotlin,lua,perl,ruby,rust}.ts	Eight language modules add token patterns and scanners for language-specific syntax, comments, and strings.
Register and expose languages src/index.ts, src/languages/index.ts, scripts/language-utils.mjs	The root highlighter registers the new definitions, extends HighlightLanguage, and exposes the definitions and aliases.
Validate highlighting and aliases test/{csharp,dart,java,kotlin,lua,perl,ruby,rust}.test.ts, test/fixtures.ts, test/token-classes.ts, test/real-doc-fixtures.test.ts	Tests cover token classes, language-specific lexical cases, aliases, and plaintext fallback. Shared fixtures and helpers support the suites.
Update bundle profiles and documentation scripts/bench.mjs, scripts/measure-size.mjs, README.md, docs/*, skills/configure-selective-highlighting/references/languages.md, .changeset/more-languages.md	Benchmark and bundle-size profiles include the new languages. Documentation and the changeset update the language lists and all-language bundle measurements.

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Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: tannerlinsley

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 49c2b

This change adds eight new highlighting languages without changing existing ones. Two small colouring inaccuracies remain: Java when guards show as plain text, and Dart assert is coloured as a function call. The change is safe to merge, and these can be fixed as quick follow-ups.

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• .changeset/more-languages.md
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• docs/reference/languages.md
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• src/languages/csharp.ts
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• src/languages/java.ts
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