isort for other languages?

[dreamworks]

just out of curiosity. Does anyone know any isort "form" for other programming languages?
any reason why this project is limited to python?

[matthewhughes934]

just out of curiosity. Does anyone know any isort "form" for other programming languages?

I think most programming languages have something similar, some examples:

• Rust it's part of rustfmt (in fact adding it looks to have been inspired by isort Option to sort imports in isort-like order? rust-lang/rustfmt#1302)
• Golang has gci: https://github.com/daixiang0/gci
• For JS I think something like https://eslint.org/docs/latest/rules/sort-imports would work
• For Java something like https://checkstyle.org/checks/imports/importorder.html#ImportOrder

any reason why this project is limited to python?

My guess would be simplicity. Since every programming language has distinct syntax, conventions etc. it would be difficult to maintain parsing logic for each language, especially across version changes. Additionally, programming languages usually provide tools to inspect their own code, e.g. the ast library in Python https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html, this generally makes it easier to write tools that need to read/understand source code using that same language

[kurtmckee]

@dreamworks It looks like your question has been answered. Please close this issue to reduce the backlog of issues. Thanks!