Quick question. Pants v1 was supporting other languages besides Python as far as I can tell. Pants v2, does not. Is there a plan to support other languages in the future, or is this something we need to do on our own through the Plugin System?

Hello! Yes, in the works 🙂 2.5 adds support for Shell https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.5/docs/shell A few contributors are actively working on Java and Scala to follow, and there's been some initial work on Go Which language(s) are you hoping to use?

node/npm/whatever those front-end people call it would be 💯

Node is not currently in the works, in part because it means something different to everyone. E.g. do we want a "Create React App" integration? We'd welcome community contributions for JavaScript, and are also happy to help folks host their own plugins (similar to Flake8 and Pytest communities)

Currently we have a repo for React and multiple repos for Django Apps. We are still evaluating whether we want to have everything in one repository or split up front/backend.

Yeah, Node/JS is not a high priority right now because there are so many competing underlying tools, and what support for it means looks so different to different people. We'd love if an org with a specific opinion were to implement this, and we'd be happy to help. But also, it seems fine to me to have a React app built directly via, say, Yarn, while the Python parts of the repo are built with Pants. That's what we do internally at Toolchain!

all excellent points. Plus i'm pretty sure my FE devs would through their toys if I told them what tools to use.

Indeed, that's another reason we're hesitant to enter JS-land. There's already so much work going into build tools there (e.g. Rome). We're trying to focus more on languages that are underserved by current tooling (esp tooling for large repositories / monorepos)