Given that international auxiliary languages allow for more efficient cooperation; I think more people should consider using an easily learnable IAL, like Esperanto.

IALs would reduce the English dominance that gate-keeps software development to English persons; and hence allow more potential software developers to better develop software. The English language is mostly dominant in software development because of linguistic imperialism.

  • Amicese@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 years ago

    I love how this is always framed: “…terrible to non-existent English support…”

    Terrible to non-existent English support for projects designed in native languages.

    There’s about 400 million native English speakers in the world. There’s about a billion native Mandarin speakers in the world. Why is it never framed “…terrible to non-existent Mandarin support…”? There’s about 475 million native Spanish speakers in the world. Why is it never framed “…terrible to non-existent Spanish support…”?

    How is the population of speakers relevant to the language support of programs?

    Even the way internationalists frame things is very telling.

    Telling about what?