[jerf]

I can accept English as a professional requirement [1], but it's actually pretty easy to get into programming as a non-"professional programmer", and we're often pushing that programming should be extended out to school children or other groups that we can't also count on pouring years into an English-as-second-language education. I'd like such people to be able to find materials in their own language if possible, lest the bar get raised too high for basically no good reason.

[1]: Cards on table, I am effectively monolingual (can read simple French, can arguably read English far enough back in time that's it's not really the same language anymore, but that's not practically useful for programming), but IMHO that's mostly because I just have no options here for being immersed in another language, or I'd pick one up. I've taken a stab a couple of times at learning other languages but with zero (natural) opportunity to speak it to anybody else it's been an uphill battle to convince my brain it's worth doing; it keeps optimizing away the second language and, abstractly, it's correct, and that's hard to argue with....