I'm slightly saddened that Github doesn't recognize Brainfuck files.

Of course it does:

https://github.com/r0nk/ward/blob/master/hello.bf

https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

Just not in Ace (their code editor).

It doesn't count it in language statistics, though.

Hmm, this looks like a different issue. Brainfuck is recognized in the stats, if you head to search: https://github.com/r0nk/ward/search?l=makefile

It's not showing up in the color bar, though. Loggin' dat issue.