Supported languages for Amazon Q Developer in the IDE

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:

• Java

• Python

• JavaScript

• TypeScript

• C#

• Go

• PHP

• Rust

• Kotlin

• SQL

• C++

• C

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

• JSON (AWS CloudFormation)

• YAML (AWS CloudFormation)

• HCL (Terraform)

• CDK (Typescript, Python)

Amazon Q also supports code generation for:

• Ruby

• Shell

• Scala

Language support for Code Transformation

The Amazon Q Developer Agent for code transformation supports upgrading code from Java 8 or Java 11 to Java 17.

Language support for security scans

Amazon Q security scans supports 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

• 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