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I wish there was more stuff happening outside of the Node ecosystem. It feels like everything around vector tiles is written in Node these days; the only exception I can think of off the top of my head is TileServer-PHP.

And Node can be painful to work with on some platforms and in some circumstances, not to mention that JS is not everyone's favorite PL.

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If you're more comfortable with Python, have a look at Mapzen's set of tools for working with MVT-formatted vector tiles: https://github.com/tilezen/

(Disclosure: I'm a Mapzen staffer.)

Perfect, thank you!

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

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