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The plan seems to actually be auto replace the Z values in the editor views with human readable values, which will automatically use the contributors preferred
by jsmith45 3y ago
The plan seems to actually be auto replace the Z values in the editor views with human readable values, which will automatically use the contributors preferred language.
This of course only works if all functions, and all parameters, etc have had labels submitted for your language.
They indicate wanting to cater to cultures that might not use a base 10 representation of numbers, so would presumably autotranforms numeric literals for people from those cultures.
They are worried about programming languages being englished based, but seem to think that similar autotranslating of keywords is a good enough approach, so that is why they NEED to support multiple languages, so that they might hypothetically support some language that supports base 60 math and keywords based on [insert language here].
Plenty of room for abuse here, as it would be really easy to edit functions being used for text generation of less popular languages to output offensive text, for things not tested by the test cases. And nobody except people who know that language will be able to tell for sure that this is not a legit contribution.
Then of course people will by trying to code sandbox and then container breaks, cryptominers, etc. I expect a giant game of whack-a-mole between the project and the admins.
On that note even ignoring the abuse, or people trying to utilize the service for free compute resources, I can see the costs of this service becoming substantial really quick. Just from things like legitimate contributions of test cases, and new language implementations, and running the test cases again all the different implementations.
- riffraff 3y ago> And nobody except people who know that language will be able to tell for sure that this is not a legit contribution This is already the case with wikipedia, there was the recent story that most of the Scots wikipedia was written by someone who does not know the language, in the style of "English, as she is written".
- pantalaimon 3y agoAh so pretty much how Excel has localized function names
- account42 3y agoWhich solves about zero problems and creates many. Let's stop this woke nonsense and instead focus on improving english speaking ability of the world. Having a common language everyone understands only has benefits.