[DriftRegion]

from https://wa-lang.org/

> 自主可控、纯中文国内社区

> Independent and controllable, pure Chinese domestic community

Doing software projects for domestic and foreign users is extra work, and the community seems to fragment along language lines. For example: https://www.esp32.com/index.php

I guess a 纯中文国内社区 is one way to solve this, but then why post on hacker news? This seems contradictory.

[BiteCode_dev]

Had to deepl "自主可控、纯中文国内社区" to understand that your comment meant it translated to "pure Chinese domestic community", which implies if we are not part of the gang, we can't enjoy the project.

Well, we've been doing this implicitly with English for a long time, so I guess Karma is a bitch.

On the other hand, I wrote a French technical blog for years, and it was way harder to reach a lot of people, so if I had to do it again, it would be in English.

They don't have this problem, since 1B people are Chinese.

[tgv]

> Well, we've been doing this implicitly with English for a long time, so I guess Karma is a bitch.

Or it's their loss. 7B people don't speak a word of Mandarin, and even more can't read and write it.

[alrlroipsp]

~7B of those would not pick up a new fringe language either way.

[zen21]

Nor will ~1B of the rest.

[anononaut]

This doesn't seem like an appropriate conclusion. There's a massive semantic difference between "China #1" and "Sorry, I only know English." Karma doesn't come into play here.

[asplake]

That there’s apparently an unmet need or an unscratched itch might be newsworthy enough. If it’s a strategic move, them more so, surely?