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

  • SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world
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    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