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Ask HN: Non-English programming communities?
3 points by cproctor on March 19, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I'm interested in studying programming communities whose dominant natural language is not English. This could mean the programming language and code is based on a non-English natural language, or that supporting text like comments, documentation, bug queues, support forums, etc. is not in English. I've found a few interesting posts [1,2] addressing this, but would love connections to communities or projects that are currently active.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ugly-american-programmer/

[2] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1483/do-people-in-non-english-speaking-countries-code-in-english



I don't know the current situation, but you can try to look at:

* Ruby (not Ruby on Rails): The creator is Japanese and the main forum of the developers was/is in Japanese https://www.ruby-lang.org/es/

* Lua: The creators are Brazilian, I'm not sure if part of the initial development was in Portuguese. https://www.lua.org/


There's an excellent book about the software community in peripheral areas that talks about Lua's development

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/coding-places




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