cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/24335357
Unironically awesome. You can debate if it hurts the ability to contribute to a project, but folks should be allowed to express themselves in the language they choose & not be forced into ASCII or English. Where I live, English & Romantic languages are not the norm & there are few programmers since English is seen as a perquisite which is a massive loss for accessibility.
The hotter take: languages like APL, BQN, & Uiua had it right building on symbols (like we did in math class) for abstract ideas & operations inside the language, where you can choose to name the variables whatever makes sense to you & your audience.
Honestly it wouldn’t even be that hard to release full translated versions of existing programming languages. Like Python in Punjabi or Kotlin in Chinese or something (both of which already support unicode variable/class/function names). Just have a lookup table to redefine each keyword and standard library name to one in that language, it can literally just be an additional translation layer above the compiler/interpreter that converts the code to the original English version.
It’s honestly really surprising that non-English speakers have developed entirely new programming languages in their own language (unfortunately none of which are getting very widespread use even among speakers of that language), but the practice of simply translating a widely used and industry standard English programming language doesn’t seem to be much of a thing.
If I ever make my own programming language, I’m probably going to bake multi-language support into the compiler. Just supply it with a lookup table of translated terms and the code in that language.
Because it supports Unicode as variable/class/function names and Unicode includes all the characters humans have ever used, even dead languages (I assume for historians to digitize ancient texts?)
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ObscurityAntiquityLet’s hope Ea-nāṣir’s code is better than his copper.
I hear it’s prone to Rust.
Iltam sumra rashupti ilatimmoment 🗿Wtf I just said these words out loud and the furniture started floating o.o
Isn’t it all unicode at the end of the day, so it supports anything unicode supports? Or am I off base?
I think they exclude some unicode characters from being use in identifiers. At least last I tried it wouldn’t allow me to use an emoji as a variable name.
This is how we end up with snow crash.
Bro thats fucking amazing 😂
It really bugs me when people don’t comment their code at all. I have no idea what this is supposed to do.
Ea Nasir over here selling subpar code now
Thanks, I hate it
Most languages are like this. Even C is like this.
Depends on the compiler, I’m pretty sure some versions of Borland shit themselves if you introduce an accent mark at the wrong time, much less support Unicode.
