I recently read an article (German) about the dominance of English in programming languages [1]. It is about the fact that keywords in a language typically are English words. Thus it would be hard for non English speakers to learn programming - argue the authors.
I wonder if there is really demand for that but of course it is weird to ask that on an English list. I also wonder if it would be possible on a tooling level to support keywords in other languages e.g. via build tags: // +language german Besides keywords we have a lot of names for functions, methods, structs, interfaces and so on. So there is definitely more to it. While such a feature may be beneficial for new programmers, to me it comes with many downsides like: readability, ambiguous naming / clashes, global teams ... I also believe the authors totally miss the point that learning Go is about to learn a language as it is because it is the language of the compiler. However I find the topic interesting and want to hear about your opinions. thanks - Chris 1: https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000101285309/programmieren-ist-fuer-jeden-aber-nur-wenn-man-englisch-spricht -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
