> There are objective arguments for English as a universal language for computing. This isn't just "cultural imperialism" or something. English is not my first

> There are objective arguments for English as a universal language for computing. This isn't just "cultural imperialism" or something. English is not my first language, but if I try to imagine my first language being used in its place, I immediately see dozens of serious issues that would arise, all of which are non-issues with English. The "objective arguments" you're saying is simply hand-waving on the fact that the English (and Americans, which mainly descended from English pioneers) have spoken English. I should remind you that French is still the primary language of diplomacy (even it looks like English has replaced it) and French has also a robust transliteration system to many languages (and in some cases which is even better than how English handles it due to its fewer phonological edge-cases), mainly because it also have historically controlled some parts of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, and have a serious diplomatic force for areas which the French haven't bothered to conquer with. Now, the question is simply what if Cyrillic is the lingua franca of the computing world, and you've never answered it directly. You instead doubled-down on the supposed benefits of the standard English and alphabet which is not what I'm asking. You might not have an answer here, being that it's hard to imagine that alternate reality, but I should remind you that a lot of people globally have significantly different scripts and doesn't know any Latin letters. Sure, the Chinese knows it, but it doesn't apply to many other people in Asia and Africa.