List of supported languages

[jakirkham]

While I think we have mostly dispelled the notion of Conda being strictly a Python package manager, it would be helpful for people to have more visibility into what other languages are supported. Along these lines it might be nice to have a list of supported languages in the docs or perhaps the webpage somewhere.

[CJ-Wright]

There is this but we should have a list somewhere so we can have one source of truth for the languages (esp so we can pull it into that notebook)

[jenniferokafor]

Hello, Outreachy contributor here :D I'll like to take this up if no one is on this issue yet. @CJ-Wright, is it okay if I reach out for some pointers if needed? Thanks!

[jakirkham]

Welcome! @viniciusdc is the contact for Outreachy. Would work with him 🙂

[viniciusdc]

Welcome! @viniciusdc is the contact for Outreachy. Would work with him

Thanks @jakirkham, I've already talked with @jenniferokafor about this issue, and I asked her to ping CJ for this. But if you could give some insights of the current supported languages it would undoubtedly help too 😄

[jakirkham]

Oops. Sorry to confuse things then 😅

AFAIK we have C, C++, Fortran, Python, and R with fairly comprehensive support. We also support JavaScript (Node.js), Java, Rust, Go, Perl, Ruby, Julia, and maybe others I'm forgetting with the interpreter/compiler built, but not necessarily comprehensive package coverage

[jakirkham]

Should add I think if we start a doc PR listing those we can more easily ask people to help fill out that list further

[CJ-Wright]

It would be great if this could be pulled from metadata and then placed in the docs, otherwise we run the risk of the docs becoming inaccurate as we build out other languages.

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[jenniferokafor]

@jakirkham thank you for the resources!

[prachinandi]

While I think we have mostly dispelled the notion of Conda being strictly a Python package manager, it would be helpful for people to have more visibility into what other languages are supported. Along these lines it might be nice to have a list of supported languages in the docs or perhaps the webpage somewhere.

@jakirkham @CJ-Wright @viniciusdc @beckermr In docs where we are supposed to add this feature( adding all the languages supported by conda-forge. I would like to work on it.

[prachinandi]

@CJ-Wright had shared the link https://github.com/conda-forge/by-the-numbers/blob/master/packages_per_lang.ipynb here I can find the list of supported languages, so basically all I need to do is, to add them in docs , but my doubt is in which section of docs.