Write JavaScript in your Local Language

Re:Write JavaScript in your Local Language by poblano on Sunday August 19, 2012 @12:10PM (#4404367)

I agree this is probably a bad idea, but I still think the basic problem it's trying to solve is a real one.

A less hack-y solution might be for new languages to start incorporating more languages in their choices of keywords and class names.

Suppose someone were designing a new language (let's call it Foolang), and these were some of the keywords:

* publico, privado, protegido (access specifiers in Spanish)

* eetha/akhra (if/else in Arabic)

* zhen/jia (true/false in Mandarin)

I think this would be an interesting experiment. It would have to be a compelling language in its own right though.

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Re:Write JavaScript in your Local Language by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday August 19, 2012 @12:13PM (#4404376)

I agree that it's a basic problem. There's a language using Japanese keywords out there: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind and a few others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_l...

Still, a language monoculture is more convenient for most programmers. As an English-speaking programmer, I'd hate to have to maintain, say, Chinese code.

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Re:Write JavaScript in your Local Language by zokier on Sunday August 19, 2012 @03:02PM (#4404812)

I think the language constructs/keywords are the "easy" part. But how do you translate identifiers, comments and other "textual" content automatically?

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Re:Write JavaScript in your Local Language by poblano on Sunday August 19, 2012 @10:43PM (#4406062)

You're right. There isn't really an easy solution to this.

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