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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I would say the largest loss for a non English speaker is not having the full context of the method and variable names, as well as the comments or API descriptions within the source code. My friends from Mexico all mention English is a requirement on basically any university offering computer science/engineering.

Edit: you can always use google translate, but that will inflate the time required.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks to more and more languages supporting full unicode for symbols this will eventually be a thing of the past, fortunately: we can just switch to functions and variables being named only with one or more descriptive emojis.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Emojis as identifiers? That seems like an outdated solution. We really need gifs for that.