Toolkit Language Ideas

[viktorbenei]

Our first planned step toolkit / language support will be for Go.

Considerations for new suggestions:

• We at bitrise strongly prefer compiled & statically typed languages. We worked with quite a few languages in the past and so far this is the combination which worked the best, especially long term / as the code grows.

Here are other languages which could be good candidates as supported step toolkits in the future:

Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org)

PROS:

• Ruby like language, with static typing!
• Official dependency manager

CONS:

• No Windows support
• Not "production ready" yet

Ruby / Python

PROS:

• Dynamic, "production ready" script languages; there are certain types of tasks where a dynamic language can be useful (although we at bitrise strongly prefer compiled & statically typed languages)