> Citrine is one of the first∗ embeddable∗∗, general purpose, localized programming languages (...) designed to allow every man to write code in his mother tong

> Citrine is one of the first∗ embeddable∗∗, general purpose, localized programming languages (...) designed to allow every man to write code in his mother tongue This concentration of asterixes had me laugh out loud. Anyhow, this reminds me of so-called “auxilliary”, constructed languages of communication, which are supposed to be easy to learn all over the world for as many people as possibe all over the world. In reality though, they’re almost without exception wholly eurocentric, built mostly on germanic and romance languages, which barely covers one of the main language families just in europe... likewise, this citrine promises grossly more than it delivers. Though we shouldn’t stop at that; if we look away from what it claims to be, what it is seems pretty neat. For education, maybe this is great.