[g8gggu89]

> If non-native speakers are now able to solve their own local problems in their local language

But they won't be able to. Having a few keywords in your own language is vastly different from 'being able to solve problems in your local language'. It sounds like you don't understand programming.

[gbkn]

I was referring to the fact that you don't have to learn English to code. A barrier that you don't seem to acknowledge.

[Eridrus]

For languages that roughly share the same alphabet as English, it seems more like learning a few new words, rather than actually learning English.

If you take a look at the actual project you'll see that translating the language features to another language (and alphabet!) is cool, but not actually enough once you want to start interacting with libraries.

Which essentially means that without learning english, you will be stuck in a technical ghetto with the only way out being to learn english, or reimplement the world.

I still think this is highly interesting as a teaching tool; showing kids what is possible without requiring them to learn english may be a good motivator to actually learning english, but this doesn't seem to have many applications beyond as an introductory teaching tool.

[imh]

Are there any (programming) languages who's important libraries have solid documentation/tutorial coverage in non-english languages? Honest question. Those are a big part of programming for me.

[elangoc]

Yep. Ruby springs to mind. The creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"), is Japanese. He co-wrote the first Ruby book, which was in Japanese. And a year later, he co-wrote the first book for Ruby that was in English.

[g8gggu89]

Yeah, just a few: http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82...

[g8gggu89]

Can you explain that more? I see plenty of programming books in foreign languages.