There are a lot of things being written outside of Node currently [1]. However, a large number of the tools are in node, primarily because lots of people at Map

There are a lot of things being written outside of Node currently [1]. However, a large number of the tools are in node, primarily because lots of people at Mapbox are using Node. However, most of these are backed by C++ libraries so the potential is there for lots of porting to different languages, other people simply need to build against them. Some of the non-Mapbox libraries are not as up to date with the specification, but they are getting much better! [1] https://github.com/mapbox/awesome-vector-tiles https://github.com/mapbox/awesome-vector-tiles