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I know they are aiming to be a real language but isn't this effectively an art project? In that sense, it is very effective at pointing out how English-centric

I know they are aiming to be a real language but isn't this effectively an art project? In that sense, it is very effective at pointing out how English-centric programming is. As a non Spanish speaker, I instantly felt what those learning to program must feel when they don't know any English. Utter confusion. It does seem like it should be trivial for every programming language to have a localization file for keywords to be rendered in a local version on the user's machine. Though then you still have to deal with variables and comments.

BiteCode_dev 6y ago
Most things in programming are human conventions that you have to learn. There is rarely a way to guess or figure things out. Keywords, scoping, byte order... It's all arbitrary, understanding the English meaning of the world "yield" in English will do little to help you understand generators. No, the real problem is the reading material. If you need to debug/read doc/google stuff, anything worth something (except a few exceptions like samemax.com and so on) will be in English. I've seen French professionals being perfectly capable programmers, but because their English sucked, their struggled to solve some problems that were a Stackoverflow post away.