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Supported languages for Amazon Q Developer in the IDE

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Amazon Q Developer provides support for a wide range of programming languages across its various features and capabilities. This page outlines the languages and versions supported for each of its features.

Language support for inline suggestions

Amazon Q supports inline code suggestions for multiple programming languages. The accuracy and quality of the code generation for a programming language depends on the size and quality of the training data.

In terms of the quality of the training data, the programming languages with the most support are:

  • C

  • C++

  • C#

  • Dart

  • Go

  • Java

  • JavaScript

  • Kotlin

  • Lua

  • PHP

  • PowerShell

  • Python

  • R

  • Ruby

  • Rust

  • Scala

  • Shell

  • SQL

  • Swift

  • SystemVerilog

  • TypeScript

The Infrastructure as Code (IaC) languages with the most support are:

  • CDK (Typescript, Python)

  • HCL (Terraform)

  • JSON

  • YAML

Language support for chat and inline chat

Amazon Q supports a variety of programming languages for chat and inline chat in the IDE, with enhanced performance for popular programming and IaC languages, including but not limited to the following:

  • C

  • C++

  • C#

  • Dart

  • Go

  • Java

  • JavaScript

  • Kotlin

  • PHP

  • Python

  • Ruby

  • Rust

  • Scala

  • Shell

  • SQL

  • Swift

  • TypeScript

The Infrastructure as Code (IaC) languages with the most support are:

  • CDK (Typescript, Python)

  • HCL (Terraform)

  • JSON

  • YAML

Amazon Q chat and inline chat support languages not listed here, including less common languages, though quality can vary.

Language support for transformations

The supported languages for transformation depend on the environment where you are transforming code.

In JetBrains IDEs and Visual Studio Code, the following languages are supported for transformation:

In Visual Studio, the following languages are supported for transformation:

For more information about supported languages and other prerequisites for transformation, see the topic for the type of transformation your are performing.

Language support for feature development with /dev

The Amazon Q agent for feature development supports a variety of languages, with enhanced performance for popular programming languages, including but not limited to the following:

  • Java

  • Python

  • JavaScript

  • TypeScript

The feature development agent also supports less common languages, though quality can vary.

Language and framework support for unit test generation with /test

The Amazon Q agent for unit test generation supports the following languages and test frameworks:

  • Python

    • Supported test frameworks: Pytest, Unittest

  • Java

    • Supported test frameworks: JUnit (JUnit 4 and 5, JUnit Jupiter), Mockito

Language support for code reviews with /review

Amazon Q code reviews support the following language versions:

  • Java ‐ Java 17 and earlier

  • JavaScript ‐ ECMAScript 2021 and earlier

  • Python ‐ Python 3.11 and earlier, within the Python 3 series

  • C# ‐ All versions (.NET 6.0 and later recommended)

  • TypeScript ‐ All versions

  • Ruby ‐ Ruby 2.7 and 3.2

  • Go ‐ Go 1.18

  • C ‐ C11 and earlier

  • C++ ‐ C++17 and earlier

  • PHP ‐ PHP 8.2 and earlier

  • Kotlin ‐ Kotlin 2.0.0 and earlier

  • Scala ‐ Scala 3.2.2 and earlier

  • JSX ‐ React 17 and earlier

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) languages

    • AWS CloudFormation ‐ 2010-09-09

    • Terraform ‐ 1.6.2 and earlier

    • AWS CDK ‐ TypeScript and Python

Automatic code fixes are available for scans in the following languages and versions:

  • Java ‐ Java 17 and earlier

  • JavaScript ‐ ECMAScript 2021 and earlier

  • Python ‐ Python 3.11 and earlier, within the Python 3 series

  • C# ‐ All versions (.NET 6.0 and later recommended)

  • TypeScript ‐ All versions

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) languages

    • AWS CloudFormation ‐ 2010-09-09

    • Terraform ‐ 1.6.2 and earlier

    • AWS CDK ‐ TypeScript and Python

Language support for documentation generation with /doc

Amazon Q supports documentation generation for the following languages:

  • Java

  • Python

  • JavaScript

  • TypeScript

Language support for customizations

Amazon Q supports customizations for the following languages, and uses the listed file types to create customizations:

  • Python (.py)

  • Java (.java)

  • JavaScript (.js, .jsx)

  • TypeScript (.ts, .tsx)

  • Markdown (.md, .mdx)

  • reStructuredText (.rst)

  • Text (.txt)

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