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by realty_geek 2499 days ago
Great to see an awesome product - primarily in Chinese!!! That will teach me to not take English language domination for granted!!
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Certainly interesting to see English's domination increasingly challenged on open source tech projects. However this makes contributing harder for non-Chinese speakers. I had a look at the git's issues page and all the discussion is in Chinese. Google translate can help, but I'm not sure it would be enough for some subtle problems. Also not sure how communication would go with PRs if part of the team is strictly sinophone.

Great project nonetheless. Will likely give it a try. Keep up the excellent work!

We'll have to get used to this and I think it's actually a good thing.

Of course a lot of folks speak English but Chinese is also very important and will be more so in the world.

I really appreciate having a "lingua franca" of programming. Projects in other languages are certainly interesting to see, but I also appreciate that most authors use English, it contributes to a larger worldwide community.
do you really believe that?
Thanks for the feedback. Actually I saw a lot of great Chinese projects on Github trending and sadly they are Chinese only. I would definitely agree they can do better by translating into English!