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Why is there no English documentation ?
by asitdhal 10y ago
Why is there no English documentation ?
- ominous 10y agoWhy should there be?
- ricardobeat 10y agoWhy is the summary in English?
- nowayyeah 10y agoBecause is written by chinese developers for a chinese company?
- asitdhal 10y agoThey put that code in github, releasing it to non-chinese developers. Won't it be good if code has at least some documentation in English ? It's not that they don't want, they have some part in English.
- robjan 10y agoGitHub isn't just for English users
- panglott 10y agoThe hegemony of English is unquestionable.
- StreamBright 10y agoLast time I checked English was the 3rd most spoken language on the planet. - Chinese - Spanish - English You mean in tech?
- joelwilliamson 10y agoThat's ordering by native speakers. If you count non-natives, English has far more speakers than Spanish (but far less than Mandarin).
- kinkrtyavimoodh 10y agoAlso, English is the most widely spoken too, by a wide wide margin.
- hardwaresofton 10y agoWhy is there rarely any non-english-language documentation for most codebases nowadays? The world doesn't revolved around english-speaking countries.
- thegeomaster 10y agoBecause English is the lingua franca of the software industry, and developers are usually expected to know English, no matter where they're from.
- hardwaresofton 10y agoThe point of my comment was, that shouldn't necessarily be the case forever, and it might not be reasonable to expect it to be.
- thegeomaster 10y agoSure, nothing ever stays the same, but I think that for the foreseeable future, we can reasonably expect English to stay the universal language of software development. It's the default foreign language people learn in their home countries for a lot of reasons, so a lot of people who want to get into the field already have at least a basic understanding of English. This aids them in learning and communication with other developers, and it's just too convenient to be displaced any time soon.
- justincormack 10y agoBecause it is a lot of work. Nginx always had good Russian docs, for reasons you can guess.
- coldtea 10y agoIn purpose, to give a taste what it is like for non-english speakers to english programmers too /s
- lylei 10y agoWorking on it. ReadMe, issues and PRs are just a beginning. We definitely want to involve as many contributors as possible.
- LinuxFreedom 10y agoHopefully the Chinese will not be as arrogant as you when they take over the leading role on this planet.
- asitdhal 10y agoI was not arrogant. I am not a native English speaker. I expect most softwares to have a documentation in English. Do you want to learn 5 different languages just because 5 different kind of people write good software ? It's easy to blame others.