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submitted 10 months ago by StorageB@lemmy.one to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

If you're from a non English speaking country, do you first have to learn English if you want to get into programming?

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[-] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

Realistically you will always need to be able to read documentation for:

  • Your language
  • Your compiler
  • Your platform
  • The APIs you're calling

All of this will be in English even if your project is in another human language. Yes there will be translation for some of it available but it will be partial, incomplete, dated, etc. you'll be using English so much anyway and have people from other countries working on the code regardless that you're adding a needless barrier using a different national language.

Look at the French government open source codee for instance. The overall website is in French but the actual repos are covered and mostly seem to be in English

this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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