Ask HN: Is English the language of software development everywhere?

Posted by andrewstuart on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @02:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.

So I'm thinking "there must be a huge amount of software written in China".

And then I thought, but I see very few Chinese people in the forums, StackOverflow github etc.

So where are all the chinese software developers? Are they doing all their development collaboration on chinese websites?

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Re:Ask HN: Is English the language of software development e... by billconan on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @02:30PM (#10982393)

Because of the censorship, it's super slow to visit those english sites. And of course there is language barrier. The largest tech site in China is perhaps csdn.net

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Re:Ask HN: Is English the language of software development e... by andrewstuart on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @02:34PM (#10982425)

So how do the latest technologies filter into the Chinese software development scene? Or are they a generation or two behind due to the need for ideas to filter through?

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Re:Ask HN: Is English the language of software development e... by billconan on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @02:52PM (#10982622)

I think there is no major delay. I don't know too much about those very detailed development technologies. But you often see a hot topic on HN covered by a Chinese press after 2 weeks.

In companies, they're allowed to use vpn services to connect to those English sites.

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Re:Ask HN: Is English the language of software development e... by cool_penguins on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @03:04PM (#10982746)

There are lots of Chinese, Russian etc... developers but they just stick to websites in their languages mostly, especially Chinese devs.

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