Roadmap for supporting additional languages/runtimes about bit

[itaymendel]

hi,

the runtimes used for Harmony Platform are unrelated to the languages Bit supports. Harmony is an external library for Bit. Supporting additional languages is in our roadmap, but this is still undecided on when.

The main problem in supporting additional languages is their dependency management system. in js eco-system we have the nodejs dependency resolution, which is very flexible and allowed tools like npm/pnpm/yarn to be the best package mangers possible.
Bit leads heavily on their capabilities. so supporting python/java/dotnet and more will mainly require work on dependency management.

at the moment we still have work to do in the JS eco-system, for example - ESM.

I am closing this issue, as this is a long term initiative and i can't provide with an answer for this. once we will have plans to expand Bit, we will make them available for all.

more details on Harmony -
The Harmony Platform you referred to is an SDK that allowed better composability for js-based systems, and runtime in harmony's context is actual runtime environment where you want your application to run. this is unrelated to Bit.
You will be able to build systems with Harmony even if you are not using Bit to manage it.

Documentation on Harmony is coming soon, we just opened this so we can start building examples for it in the open.
Harmony is what allows Bit to be implemented in a similar way to "aspect oriented architecture", and allow every aspect to provide functionality to various "runtimes" of an application (for example - cli and browser in the context of Bit, or backend, browser and edge in the context of bit.cloud).