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Everyone should use English. All technology should be in English, as it was in the beginning. Locales were a mistake and are a headache. Internationalization is
by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Everyone should use English. All technology should be in English, as it was in the beginning. Locales were a mistake and are a headache. Internationalization is a misguided boondoggle that enables a quagmire of fractured communication.
- CorrectHorseBat 2y agoThe vast majority of the world doesn't know English, why do you want to deprive them of technology?
- CoastalCoder 2y agoI believe GP was joking.
- CRConrad 2y agoI think something like at least a quarter of the world's population can at least get by in English, so while yes, there may be a majority that doesn't, that majority is far from "vast".
- muzani 2y agoSimplified Chinese is the most efficient language, besides the 30 MB fonts. But there's no reason to use any font besides Noto Sans.
- gus_massa 2y agoIt depends. The mantainers can choose any language they like. I'm not sure but a part of Ruby was in Japanese and a part of Lua in Portuguese(Br) because the author were from those countries. (Perhaps only the email list? I don't remember the details.) Anyway, I agree that it's easier to find contributor from all arround the world if the mantainer choose Broken English as the main language of the project. [Hi from Argentina!]