On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 8:08 AM Reto <reto@labrat.space> wrote: > In my view you don't necessarily need to speak English, although it helps > a lot. > Go uses utf-8 for all identifiers, so assuming you treat the keywords as > blobs and just remember when to use which you should be fine. > > The issue being more that all existing packages worth using are written > with English identifiers, it being the defacto universal language of the > world. > Same goes for the corresponding docs. > > Writing programs in multiple languages just fragments the ecosystem for no > real benefit. >
and imagine having to debug a program written in - say - russian, with all the variables, functions (and their abbreviations) and comments in russian. (I am not picking on russian programs. It just happens that during my PhD, I'd inherited a physics simulation program written by russian colleagues, and I had to maintain and develop it. not something I want to do ever again :P) cheers, -s -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
