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Coming from a french background so I don't have the experienced ask in the question. But I learned programming quite early on, when I did not speak english, so

Coming from a french background so I don't have the experienced ask in the question. But I learned programming quite early on, when I did not speak english, so here is how I can imagine it works: - Developer who don't know english will learn programming word without any context as to what they are in real life. "string" "array" "forEach" are just like commands that you learn by heart. It's not so different for an english speaker in some regards as if you think about it, a "map" or a "string" don't really evock what they are in programming just from the name. - most company that aren't international probably write their code in the language. In french it would be something like const carteDuJeu = new Carte(); Because of UTF-8, I believe you can use any character, including Cyrillic etc. Some languages tried to be translated (looking at you VBA) but that just makes a mess where you can't find references to what you want because of the much smaller local community (this might not be as much of a problem in china).

jelliclesfarm 7y ago
Interesting. I am getting back to the computer after a long gap(20+ years). Testing the waters with Python and I find it refreshingly simple and easy. It seems to be a different flavor somehow.. I was wondering if it felt this way to me because decades ago, I learnt how to code when I was in school in a non English speaking country and even though my primary medium of education wasn’t the vernacular, English was still a foreign language(I ‘thought’ in my own lanaguge inside my head even though I spoke and studied and wrote in English) Fast forward 20-25 years, English is now my default language/mode of thinking and I was wondering how easy programming and coding would be to a non English speaking school child in Vietnam or Russia or elsewhere in the world with languages employing a non roman script. I can’t relate.

jelliclesfarm 7y ago

Interesting. I am getting back to the computer after a long gap(20+ years). Testing the waters with Python and I find it refreshingly simple and easy. It seems to be a different flavor somehow.. I was wondering if it felt this way to me because decades ago, I learnt how to code when I was in school in a non English speaking country and even though my primary medium of education wasn’t the vernacular, English was still a foreign language(I ‘thought’ in my own lanaguge inside my head even though I spoke and studied and wrote in English) Fast forward 20-25 years, English is now my default language/mode of thinking and I was wondering how easy programming and coding would be to a non English speaking school child in Vietnam or Russia or elsewhere in the world with languages employing a non roman script. I can’t relate.