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Ask HN: Non-English programming communities?
I'm interested in studying programming communities whose dominant natural language is not English. This could mean the programming language and code is based on a non-English natural language, or that supporting text like comments, documentation, bug queues, support forums, etc. is not in English. I've found a few interesting posts [1,2] addressing this, but would love connections to communities or projects that are currently active.
[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ugly-american-programmer/
[2] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1483/do-people-in-non-english-speaking-countries-code-in-english
- gus_massa 9y agoI don't know the current situation, but you can try to look at: * Ruby (not Ruby on Rails): The creator is Japanese and the main forum of the developers was/is in Japanese https://www.ruby-lang.org/es/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/es/ * Lua: The creators are Brazilian, I'm not sure if part of the initial development was in Portuguese. https://www.lua.org/ https://www.lua.org/
- etiene 9y agoThere's an excellent book about the software community in peripheral areas that talks about Lua's development https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/coding-places https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/coding-places