How programmers code in NON-ENGLISH ‍ #programming #technology #software #code #tech #career

Bhai lang

I'm from a French speaking country, but I prefer comment my code in English

I wonder if developing in your non native language (I'm Spanish) may introduce some mental overhead "reducing" mental stamina and also (partly as a consequence) productivity

Sí, pero se nos enseña como buena practica escribir los comentarios y los nombres de las variables en ingles. El ingles es una lengua franca que sirve si se tiene equipos al rededor del mundo (inclusive cuando el ingles no es la lengua materna de ninguno).

Es por eso que los angloparlantes no necesitan otros idiomas o aprender geografía, están en el centro del mundo por el momento.

I want them to have french,german,urdu language to write code because my brains runs faster in my native language 😅

I don't know anyone who uses a language in their speaking language, you just learn English or use it to your capability. But interesting topic

I'm one of them haha

Norwegian dev here, in my experience we write everything in english down to code, comments, and documentation ❤

Кумир - легенда

I am from Austria. Everybody knows a bit of English and that’s probably enough to code.

im indian and i just code in english( ive learned english since i was born so maybe an advantage for me:)

In Poland we write code and comments in English. Any company that writes code in Polish (I'm looking at you, PKP) is ridiculed and rightly so. Writing everything in English keeps your code more uniform and allows you to work with programmers who don't speak Polish or immigrated recently and are still learning.

In Germany I hate that we write code, comments, documentation and everything in English, but the app itself is in German, because the users are German... That's a bit annoying. But in the code everything is English, since we have an international dev team anyway and there is no other common language that everyone speaks

Im german and code python with pygame u actully dont realy need much knowledge from english to learn a programming lang

here in norway most people do english but ive heard of certain jobs (often when working for the government) where function/variable/file names and comments are in norwegian

I just suck it up tbh

English is now the most spoken language in the world and is the international language of business. Third world languages do not have the same reach the English does.

I'm learning CS in a hungarian college. Sincs hungarian is an isolated language, kids have to learn minimuk 1 or 2 foreign language to do anything, so coding in english is not that big of a problem.

I'm french and all of my comments, variable/function names are in french, the 2nd half is english 💀

Unicode

APL is only symbols. Also it is awesome, you can do things so efficiently. Watch the code reports video on comparing an a code task in different languages including APL.

“🙏” only Punjabis will understand why I used this emoji.

To be honest I think English is one of the best contribuitions of America to the civilization. Has to be a default language and english is nice option, easy to learn, easy to read and to speak. Like metric system, the decimal system etc. It just works nice.

Well by know you need to learn English for everything

I'm Czech, and not only do I code in English, I despise if someone writes comments and variable names in anything else than english

We learn English

Do you know "Bhai lang"

Nah I think English with get more and more popular until it or a very similar language is the only one once the entire world unites eventually.

I'm a Brazilian Java dev, and i do use only english in my projects that i really show in my github:D
Sure, in my private projects i do use some mixture of portuguese and english, but mainly i just use english.

I'm german but I code completely in english. Variable and function names as well as comments.

Here in France we mainly code in English but we also use French name for variable and function sometimes

Why don’t non-English speakers that code just make a compiler/interpreter for their native language. Honestly they could just compile it into English code first and then use an English compiler.

I’m from Brazil, and every developer I know just switch full mode to english, because is easier and we get more of it.
Everything we read, write, listen, and sometimes even talk about is in english.
So is not uncommon to see lots of english comments in most of legacy codes here.

Here in Georgia most devs write comments and commit messages in English as well, we dont even translate programming terminologies and concepts in Georgian when we speak

I am Indonesian, however I am writing code using English because it's confusing when programming languages already using English why bother to not use it😂

Php used to have Jewish

In Indonesia we use Indonesian Variable, Function, and Object Name.
But ask stack overflow with Indonesian Language, why? Idk

Here in Austria we do it in english

As a non-English native speaker I generally just use English in my code

In my country, We learn english at scool, so it is easy for me

Interling

My math professor worked at Siemens once and showed us his code. Since back then we used to code in German, every variable and comment was in German. The variable names were so long that the code because unreadable because German is very much like math. Put two things together and you got a new valid word.
"Wasserpumpenfrequenzregler" might be descriptive and a easy to understand boolean but writing
for (int zaehler = 0; zaehler < Wasserdruckdruckobergrenze; zaehler++)
And so on is just too much to grasp

Everything in English only, please. Try refactoring legacy code with comments, class, function and variable names in Dutch.

I'm italian and i use java, i write the comments in english too for have a wider mass of devs that can read and understand my code, but clean code school is the best for me

German here, must say not employed but most of us just write their code fully in English. Way way more natural.

saying that you're coding in english because there are a few keywords in english is a bit of a stretch.

i started my programming journey 3 years ago, and i didn't know English then, and i just memorized all keywords)
(i now know English, that's not a translation)

Spanish gamedev here, uhh we don't give a fuck we just code in English

In Russia, we have some Cyrillic programming languages such as 1С (a proprietary language for configuration 1C ERP systems), An Algorithmic Language (some weird and useless language similar to Pascal). The functions in the Russian version of Excel are also Cyrillic, but only functions names, not the cell's addresses. Therefore, users need to constantly switch between keyboard layouts to make even the basic stuff. If you wonder, Google Sheets isn't translated, so to use it properly, users might learn an entire new set of function's lables to switch from Excel