About supported languages

Most GitHub features work regardless of which languages your code is written in. You can search for code or enable syntax highlighting based on any language known to GitHub. For more information, see Understanding GitHub Code Search syntax or Creating and highlighting code blocks.

Some GitHub products have features that are currently only supported for a subset of programming languages.

Core languages for GitHub features include C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, and TypeScript. For features that support package managers, the currently supported package managers are included in the table with their relevant languages.

Some features are supported for additional languages or package managers. If you want to know whether another language is supported for a feature or to request support for a language, visit GitHub Community discussions.

Core languages supported in GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud

Language	GitHub Copilot	Code navigation	Code scanning	Dependency graph, Dependabot alerts	Dependabot version updates, Dependabot security updates	GitHub Actions	GitHub Packages
C	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓	✗
C++	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓	✗
C#	✓	✓	✓	dotnet CLI	dotnet CLI	✓	dotnet CLI
Go	✓	✓	✓	Go modules	Go modules	✓	✗
Java	✓	✓	✓	Maven, Gradle	Maven, Gradle	✓	Maven, Gradle
JavaScript	✓	✓	✓	npm, Yarn	npm	✓	npm
Kotlin	✓	✓	✓	Maven, Gradle	Maven, Gradle	✓	Maven, Gradle
PHP	✓	✓	third-party 1	Composer	Composer	✓	✗
Python	✓	✓	✓	pip	pip	✓	✗
Ruby	✓	✓	✓	RubyGems	RubyGems	✓	RubyGems
Rust	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗
Scala	✓	✓	third-party 1	Maven	Maven, Gradle	✓	✗
Swift	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	Swift Package Manager
TypeScript	✓	✓	✓	npm, Yarn	npm	✓	npm

Footnotes

1. PHP and Scala are supported for code scanning by third-party actions, but not by CodeQL. ↩ ↩²