Document Languages Supported In Gitpod

[JesterOrNot]

Please reference this issue in related PRs

Languages

Key:

• Just checked off = Not done but someone is working on it

• Checked off + Strike-through = Done!

• Not Checked or Strike-through but Bold and Italics = Started but needs work (Will specify what needs work)

• Else = Up for grabs let me know so I can mark it as such

• [x] JavaScript & TypeScript (but let's skip these for now -- I think we should make framework-specific pages for these)

• [x] Python & Jypyter Notebook

• [x] HTML & CSS

• [x] Java

• [x] Dockerfile

• [x] C++ & C

• [x] Go

• [x] Shell (Bash)

• [x] Ruby

• [x] PHP

• [x] Vue

• [x] Scala

• [x] Rust

• [x] C# / .NET

• [x] Dart

• [x] R

• [x] Elm

• [x] Kotlin

• [ ] Nim

• [ ] V

• [ ] Unison

• [ ] Haskell

For Each language

• Create a dedicated "Languages & Frameworks" page, briefly explaining what you need to do to configure Gitpod
• List which VS Code extensions you should install & briefly show what each extension does (e.g. with screenshots)
• Link to a great example repository (ideally, a gitpodified project that is already popular/famous in that language, or a gitpodified fork of such a project)
• If relevant, explain how to configure debugging, e.g. how to create a debug configuration in your .theia/ or .vscode/ directory
• If our GitHub issues or Discourse community contain helpful infos about the language, add links to search our issues / our Discourse
• If possible, update the .gitpod.yml-inferrer with an automatic setup for that language
• If the example repository is really cool, we should probably also write a short blog post about its setup, and post it to Gitpod blog (+ cross-post to Dev.to)

[JesterOrNot]

Here are a few wish list items, these can be done after the main guides

• Electron
• Xtend
• Redlang
• Tensorflow
• Vimscript
• Nix
• Erlang
• Crystal
• Clojure
• Scheme
• Hy
• Elixr
• Assembly
• Swift

[JesterOrNot]

Ordering reference

Please try to order languages by popularity in Gitpod (with a few exceptions, e.g. when a guide is really well written).

Gitpod Top Languages (2020-01-02)

1. JavaScript
2. Python
3. TypeScript
4. HTML
5. Java
6. Dockerfile
7. CSS
8. C++
9. Go
10. Shell
11. Ruby
12. PHP
13. Vue
14. Jupyter Notebook
15. C
16. Scala
17. Rust
18. C#
19. Dart
20. Xtend
21. Haskell
22. CMake
23. Julia
24. Smarty
25. XSLT
26. Groovy
27. WebAssembly
28. Objective-C
29. F#
30. TeX
31. Makefile
32. R
33. Perl
34. Kotlin
35. TSQL
36. PL/pgSQL
37. Swift
38. Objective-C++
39. Elm
40. Vim script
41. Assembly
42. Tcl
43. GAP
44. Batchfile
45. HiveQL
46. Lex
47. Rich Text Format
48. Nix
49. M4
50. CoffeeScript
51. Processing
52. PowerShell
53. Inno Setup
54. Yacc
55. AppleScript
56. AspectJ
57. FreeMarker
58. OCaml

[jankeromnes]

Amazing progress here! 🤩 Many thanks @JesterOrNot for leading this effort. 💯

Now that we've covered most of Gitpod's top languages, I think we could also look at documenting frameworks, and maybe databases.

Some of these could probably be added to a language guide, while other may benefit from a new dedicated page (e.g. inside a new /docs/frameworks/ directory). Of course, they'd all likely benefit from a few good gitpodified examples (ideally already-popular repositories, or forks if the upstream repository didn't accept a Gitpod setup).

Since getting data on the most popular frameworks in Gitpod isn't easy, I looked at https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology and https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/ to come up with a useful list:

Web Frameworks

• [ ] React.js
• [ ] Angular.js
• [ ] ASP.NET
• [ ] Express
• [ ] Electron
• [ ] Spring
• [ ] Vue.js
• [ ] Django
• [ ] Flask
• [ ] Laravel
• [ ] Ruby on Rails
• [ ] Drupal
• [ ] Magento
• [ ] Symfony
• [ ] Typo3
• [ ] Wordpress

Other Frameworks

• [x] Node.js: will be part of https://github.com/gitpod-io/website/pull/524
• [x] Pandas (see also: cheatsheet)
• [ ] Unity 3D
• [ ] Unreal Engine
• [ ] TensorFlow / Keras
• [ ] Torch/PyTorch
• [ ] Flutter
• [ ] React Native
• [ ] Cordova
• [ ] Ionic
• [ ] Xamarin
• [ ] Ansible / Puppet / Chef
• [ ] Nix
• [ ] WASM / WASI

Databases

I think that https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpodify/#installing-databases may be the most useful section of my blog post. It could be spinned out into a new documentation section with the most popular database setups:

• [ ] MySQL
• [ ] PostgreSQL
• [ ] Microsoft SQL Server
• [ ] SQLite
• [ ] MongoDB
• [ ] Redis
• [ ] MariaDB
• [ ] Elasticsearch
• [ ] Firebase
• [ ] Cassandra

[chrifro]

What is the status of this issue? It might be helpful to open a new issue with the outstanding tasks to have a better overview about what's still missing. Could this be something to mark for community contributions or help wanted?

780 #771 are relating to this as well