# Language support

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	See which code features Sourcegraph supports for each language.
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Code Search finds text in files of any language. These features depend on the language of a file:

- **Syntax highlighting**: Colors code in the file view and in search results.
- **[Symbol search](/code-search/types/symbol)**: Finds declarations with `type:symbol` searches and lists them in the symbol sidebar.
- **[Search-based navigation](/code-navigation/search-based-code-navigation)**: Go to definition and Find references from search heuristics, with no setup.
- **[Syntactic navigation](/code-navigation/syntactic-code-navigation)**: More accurate navigation from syntax analysis, on instances that enable it.
- **[Precise navigation](/code-navigation/precise-code-navigation)**: Compiler-accurate navigation from a SCIP index that an [indexer](/code-navigation/precise-code-navigation#supported-languages-and-indexers) creates for the repository.
- **[Auto-indexing](/code-navigation/auto-indexing)**: Sourcegraph detects the project and runs the indexer itself.

## Languages with full support

These languages have precise navigation, the most accurate Code Navigation:

| Language          | Syntax highlighting | Symbol search | Search-based navigation | Syntactic navigation | Precise navigation | Auto-indexing |
| ----------------- | :-----------------: | :-----------: | :---------------------: | :------------------: | :----------------: | :-----------: |
| C                 |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |          ✓           |         ✓          |               |
| C#                |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |          ✓           |         ✓          |       ✓       |
| C++               |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |          ✓           |         ✓          |               |
| CUDA              |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |                      |         ✓          |               |
| Go                |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |          ✓           |         ✓          |       ✓       |
| Java              |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |          ✓           |         ✓          |       ✓       |
| JavaScript        |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |                      |         ✓          |       ✓       |
| Kotlin            |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |                      |         ✓          |       ✓       |
| Python            |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |                      |         ✓          |       ✓       |
| Ruby              |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |                      |         ✓          |       ✓       |
| Rust              |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |                      |         ✓          |       ✓       |
| Scala             |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |          ✓           |         ✓          |               |
| TSX               |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |                      |         ✓          |       ✓       |
| TypeScript        |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |          ✓           |         ✓          |       ✓       |
| Visual Basic .NET |          ✓          |               |                         |                      |         ✓          |       ✓       |

## Languages with partial support

These languages have no syntactic navigation, precise navigation, or auto-indexing:

| Language                 | Syntax highlighting | Symbol search | Search-based navigation |
| ------------------------ | :-----------------: | :-----------: | :---------------------: |
| ActionScript             |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Apex                     |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| AppleScript              |          ✓          |               |                         |
| ASP.NET                  |          ✓          |               |                         |
| BASIC                    |                     |       ✓       |                         |
| Batchfile                |          ✓          |               |                         |
| BibTeX                   |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Cap'n Proto              |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Classic ASP              |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Clojure                  |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| CMake                    |          ✓          |               |                         |
| COBOL                    |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Common Lisp              |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Crontab                  |          ✓          |               |                         |
| CSS                      |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| D                        |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| Dart                     |          ✓          |               |            ✓            |
| Diff                     |          ✓          |               |                         |
| DM                       |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Dockerfile               |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Elixir                   |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Elm                      |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| Emacs Lisp               |          ✓          |               |            ✓            |
| Erlang                   |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| F#                       |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Fish                     |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Forth                    |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Gherkin                  |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Git Attributes           |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Git Commit               |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Git Config               |          ✓          |               |                         |
| GLSL                     |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Go Checksums             |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Go Module                |          ✓          |               |                         |
| GraphQL                  |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Graphviz (DOT)           |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Groovy                   |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Hack                     |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| Haml                     |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Haskell                  |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| HCL, Terraform           |          ✓          |               |                         |
| HLSL                     |          ✓          |               |                         |
| HTML                     |          ✓          |               |                         |
| HTML+EEX                 |          ✓          |               |                         |
| HTML+ERB                 |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Ignore List              |          ✓          |               |                         |
| INI                      |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Java Properties          |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Java Server Pages        |          ✓          |               |                         |
| JavaScript+ERB           |          ✓          |               |                         |
| JCL                      |          ✓          |               |                         |
| JSON                     |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Jsonnet                  |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Julia                    |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Less                     |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| Literate Haskell         |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Lua                      |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Magik                    |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| Makefile                 |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Markdown                 |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| MATLAB                   |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| Maven POM                |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Move                     |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Nickel                   |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Ninja                    |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Nix                      |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Objective-C              |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Objective-C++            |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| OCaml                    |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Pascal                   |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Perl                     |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| PHP                      |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Pkl                      |          ✓          |               |            ✓            |
| PostScript               |          ✓          |               |                         |
| PowerShell               |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Protocol Buffers         |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Puppet                   |          ✓          |               |                         |
| R                        |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Raku                     |                     |       ✓       |                         |
| Regular Expression       |          ✓          |               |                         |
| reStructuredText         |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Rocq Prover (Coq)        |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Roff                     |          ✓          |               |                         |
| RPM Spec                 |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Sass                     |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| Scheme                   |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| SCSS                     |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| Shell                    |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Smalltalk                |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Smarty                   |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Solidity                 |          ✓          |               |                         |
| SQL                      |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Starlark                 |          ✓          |               |            ✓            |
| Strato                   |                     |               |            ✓            |
| Stylus                   |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Svelte                   |          ✓          |               |            ✓            |
| Swift                    |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| SystemVerilog            |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Tcl                      |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| TeX, LaTeX               |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Textile                  |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Thrift                   |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| TOML                     |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Verilog                  |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| VHDL                     |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |
| Vim Script               |          ✓          |       ✓       |                         |
| Vue                      |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Vyper                    |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Wikitext                 |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Windows Registry Entries |          ✓          |               |                         |
| XML                      |          ✓          |               |                         |
| XML Property List        |          ✓          |               |                         |
| YAML                     |          ✓          |               |                         |
| Zig                      |          ✓          |       ✓       |            ✓            |

Files in a language without a checkmark for syntax highlighting are shown as plain text. Administrators can assign file extensions and path patterns to a language with `syntaxHighlighting.languages` in the [site configuration](/admin/config/site-config).

## Formats highlighted as another language

These formats have syntax highlighting only, using the grammar of the language they are based on:

| Highlighted as | Formats                                                      |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Clojure        | edn                                                          |
| Groovy         | Gradle                                                       |
| INI            | EditorConfig, NPM Config                                     |
| JSON           | Ecere Projects, JSON with Comments, JSONLD, Jupyter Notebook |
| Kotlin         | Gradle Kotlin DSL                                            |
| Perl           | Pod                                                          |
| PHP            | HTML+PHP                                                     |
| Python         | Cython, Easybuild, Snakemake                                 |
| Roff           | Roff Manpage                                                 |
| SQL            | PLSQL, PLpgSQL, SQLPL, TSQL                                  |
| Shell          | Gentoo Ebuild, Gentoo Eclass                                 |
| XML            | Ant Build System, COLLADA, SVG, XPages, XProc, XSLT          |
| YAML           | BuildStream, Kaitai Struct, RAML, Unity3D Asset              |