Language support (plumbing)

[raymyers]

• Create plumbing command exposing existing Python features
• Create a guide for adding new language support, using C / C++ as an example
• Following the guide, implement plumbing for the remaining targets:
  • C / C++
  • Java
  • C#
  • JavaScript / TypeScript
• Spin off the below into separate issues
• Handle unknown source formats in some reasonable way
• Update doc command for C / C++ with Doxygen syntax
• Update doc command for Java with Javadoc Syntax
• Update doc command for C / C++ with XML doc syntax
• Update doc command for JavaScript / TypeScript
• Update type command for JavaScript / TypeScript
• Update type command for Java generics
• Update type command for C# generics

Target Languages

For each of these top 5 we need full syntactic support, initially accessible directly through a plumbing command and eventually integrated into the core features. A proof of concept plumbing commands could list all the functions in a file, showing which had comments, outputting as Json.

1. Python
2. C / C++
3. Java
4. C#
5. JavaScript/TypeScript

Language Popularity

PYPL: leading indicator

1. Python
2. Java
3. JavaScript
4. C#
5. C/C++
6. PHP
7. R
8. TypeScript
9. Objective-C
10. Swift

TIOBE: lagging indicator

1. Python
2. C
3. Java
4. C++
5. C#
6. Visual Basic
7. JavaScript
8. SQL
9. Assembly language
10. Swift