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It is already fragmented, the non English fragments are just not at liberated. I think it would be great with some more language diversity. It would reduce the
by madsbuch 7y ago
It is already fragmented, the non English fragments are just not at liberated.
I think it would be great with some more language diversity. It would reduce the barrier for a lot of people to enter the programming world.
(and remember, it is commonplace many places to speak 2, 3, 4 languages).
- a-saleh 7y agoI am not sure the language diversity helps. I.e I remember working with localized Excel. Some of the names made no sense. What was worse, depending on localization, '0.5' could be displayed as '0,5', and that kept tripping me up. And I do speak three languages (and if push comes to shove, I can somewhat understand another two) ... and with <15 million understanding my mother tongue, yeah, I will do my programming in English. If you choose other language, it might make sense for you, and I don't feel entitled to understand you, but I probably won't learn your language just to participate, even if your project is really cool ... (unless it is one of those two that I have been neglecting ...)
- madsbuch 7y agoI think we are in perfect understanding. I, myself, also do all of my work in English even though my mother tongue is a small language of 6 million people.