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As a native french speaker, I feel so uneasy reading source code in french. It feels very very uncanny. I've often wondered if English native speakers feel the same when reading normal source code which is always in English. They probably don't. But how? I've always associated the "other language-ness" to correctness and technicality. It must be so weird to code in your own language. Feels like reading bad pseudo code. It's very nice to be able to map "english" to "technical, correct" and "native language" to "descriptive, approximate, comments, pseudo-code". Having only a single language to work with is like removing a color from the rainbow.

2 days agoby fouronnes3

The complete dictionary is here: https://github.com/bnjbvr/rouille/blob/principale/rouille_co...

I just can't stop laughing at the "génial" => "super" https://github.com/bnjbvr/rouille/blob/principale/rouille_co...

2 days agoby wiether

fk lese(&selbst, schlsl: Zeichenkette) -> Ergebnis<Möglichkeit<&Zeichenkette>, Zeichenkette> { wenn lass Etwas(wöbu) = gefährlich { WÖRTERBUCH.als_ref() } { Gut(wöbu.hole(&schlsl)) } anderenfalls { Fehler("Holt das Wörterbuch".hinein()) } }

https://github.com/michidk/rost

2 days agoby michidk

You must learn about Baguette#.

An implementation of OCaml (similar to Haskell, but from France instead of UK), but with french pastries name. It was half a joke, half a serious study project.

https://github.com/vanilla-extracts/ocaml-baguettesharp-inte...

2 days agoby _ache_

Previously discussed:

Rouille (338 points, 144 comments, Sept 11, 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28490935

Rost – Write rust code in German (55 points, 16 comments, Nov 9 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29159077

Rost – Rust Programming in German (161 points, 115 comments, Mar 25, 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43488490

2 days agoby croemer

Listen, if you didn’t just spend at least 5 minutes trying to make random foreign accents reading the code to yourself out loud trying to figure out what the code does…

We’re different people.

2 days agoby gnarlouse

It’s funny because it forced me to consider how I would translate some of the keywords when reading the code.

Some of the choices seem debatable. I’m not sure I would translate Some/None this way. The second person imperative for Use feels very weird to me too and I don’t think using vulgar French is adequate.

I really like "convention/réalisation" however.

3 hours agoby StopDisinfo910

I like the translation of the WTFPL as « la license rien a branler »

If you don’t know the idiom, you should check it out, it’s both particularly vulgar and very commonly used.

2 days agoby d--b

I like to imagine a world, a worse one, where programming languages were localised. This might initially have been a versioning nightmare, with different compiler binaries for each localisation. Later, it could become standard practice to ship a single compiler containing all supported localisations, the correct one being chosen from either system language, a project-wide setting, a preprocessor flag in each file, or some combination of these. Everyone would have to learn a little Polish, and "Source Code Translator" would be a profession.

2 days agoby asgerhb

Name conflict with the OG rust synchronous web framework: https://github.com/tomaka/rouille

2 days agoby 24f0bacc7c72d0a

There were actually localized version of Visual Basic for Applications.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications?...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21352796

2 days agoby lower

Unfortunately it still uses a dot for the decimal point.

2 days agoby layer8

2 days agoby haunter

Is the compiler now gonna scream at me for using the wrong gender?

2 days agoby joshdavham

I was curious fairly recently if programming languages could support keywords in multiple languages. My mental experiment wanted to have translation resource files, mapping keywords or the concepts they represent (if, then, for, while, func, struct, etc) to a localized human language. You could code in your native language, and so could your international fellows - the file is translated in the editor

It got complicated fast. Now you need a canonical representation for disk, something still text, maybe English is the common denominator? Do variable names get translated? Etc

I would like to see it tried, but I’m not brave enough.

2 days agoby jagged-chisel

This is very lenient French: "fetchez le dico"

2 days agoby benob

This is hilarious, thank you for your effort good sir, this is what I pay the internet for! :)

2 days agoby moezd

The Russian version linked there is, uh, underwhelming. That whole gopnik vibe is entirely unwarranted. I understand a bit of Spanish and that one is much better in comparison.

2 days agoby grishka

Funny, I was just thinking the other day that as a C/++ programmer, writing TypeScript feels a lot like speaking French where nouns and adjectives and verbs are all in the 'wrong' order. It's a very strange feeling, exactly like learning French as an English speaker

2 days agoby estimator7292

There is also a Rust minimal HTTP server by this name. (Incidentally, one of the few that isn't Async.)

2 days agoby the__alchemist