[hardbass]

Who is stopping the third world from using and forking open source tools? I think its a nonsense excuse. Many of their people become accomplished developers when they immigrate to first world countries so foss is not the one at fault but crappy governments and crappy cultures are.

[jdw64]

The core of the issue is that you need to make money to get into the IT industry. Have you ever stopped to think about why the Anglosphere is so dominant in IT in the first place? That's exactly the point. If the quality of what you make falls below what open source tools already offer, does it even have any commercial viability? When people from third world countries immigrate to developed countries, get a proper education, learn English, and then pick up the skills to climb the social ladder, that's when they learn programming.

The entire programming industry belongs to Anglophone culture. That's basically the heart of it. I'm not saying we should stop anyone from using or forking open source tools. But when anything less valuable than those tools can't command any money, do you honestly believe a country with no industrial foundation can suddenly produce tools that surpass decades of accumulated open source?

And here's another thing. From for loops to while loops, the phrasing, the word order, all of it. People say programming is machine language, but the truth is most of it is structurally dependent on English syntax.

This is exactly what people mean when they talk about the problems of globalization. Knowledge blocks vary wildly from region to region, but what gets established as a viable product is always tailored to the end consumer market, which is the U.S. Developing countries just can't keep up.