About Baobab

A tree. A language. A movement.

We're making programming accessible to French-speaking learners through a native French programming language and the best developer tools on the web.

Founder

Seidy KANTE

"I grew up coding in a language I had to translate in my head. Baobab is the tool I wish I had at 14. Today, French-speaking students from Conakry to Montréal can finally learn algorithms in their native language — without losing access to the modern software ecosystem."

Mission

Make programming accessible to every French-speaking learner — no translation required.

Vision

A world where the language of the learner is never the bottleneck to becoming a builder.

Open Source

The Baobab language is MIT-licensed. The IDE follows an open-core model.

Community

An open community of learners, educators and contributors — from Conakry to Montréal — building a French-first way to code.

Roadmap

From a French-first language to a full learning ecosystem.

Q1 2026

Language core — bidirectional Baobab ↔ Python transpiler, sandboxed runtime & the bao CLI

Q2 2026

Baobab Studio — cloud IDE, bilingual documentation & the conformance suite (docs = contract)

Q3 2026

Platform & AI — API (execution, interactive WebSocket, projects, auth, billing) + agentic AI assistant (streaming, RAG)

Q4 2026

Public launch — cloud deployment & a per-run container sandbox for fully-public execution

Q1 2027

Real parser — Lark grammar, AST & Baobab-native diagnostics (line & column)

Q2 2027

Package manager (bao install) & a community registry

Q3 2027

Editor tooling — Language Server (LSP), VS Code extension & debugger

Q4 2027

Independent runtime — remove the Python dependency

Technology

What Baobab is built on.

Python toolchain

Next.js + TypeScript

Baobab AI

MIT open source