Re:Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software tha...
by redis_mlc on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @10:47PM
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Chinese social and ecommerce companies contribute new features to Mariadb (MySQL.)
Quora mentions GitCafe and Coding.net in China.
Chinese people write in Chinese mainly, but I imagine programmers can get around in English. (If you go to an airport in China, often none of the staff speak English except for perhaps the foreign visitor kiosks, but even then.)
Japanese Open Source in the 1995-2010 era always meant 1-way forking and localizing it in Japanese, but that might have changed as projects increasingly added i18n support. (If you're familiar with Japanese writing, there were obvious reasons for that.)
Most people don't consider programming science, but ok.
Quora mentions GitCafe and Coding.net in China.
Chinese people write in Chinese mainly, but I imagine programmers can get around in English. (If you go to an airport in China, often none of the staff speak English except for perhaps the foreign visitor kiosks, but even then.)
Japanese Open Source in the 1995-2010 era always meant 1-way forking and localizing it in Japanese, but that might have changed as projects increasingly added i18n support. (If you're familiar with Japanese writing, there were obvious reasons for that.)
Most people don't consider programming science, but ok.