• cbarrick@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    This doesn’t work for code bases written in non-English languages. Especially east asian languages.

    Any line containing an identifier that is also a word would be highlighted.

    More and more programming languages are supporting unicode identifiers for this use case.

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        11 months ago

        I’d suggest to have the occasional look at the “most popular repos” ranking. It’s about 50% Chinese.

        Super-interesting sometimes as it shows completely different tech trends.

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        11 months ago

        I know right.

        It’s wild that an American company primarily doing business in the West would have a bias towards English.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, just don’t. Allowing to code in anything other than English is a disservice, plain and simple.

      Inb4, I’m not being US-centric, Latin ain’t even my native alphabet.