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Ask HN: Is English the language of software development everywhere?

4 points by andrewstuart ↗ HN
So I'm thinking "there must be a huge amount of software written in China".

And then I thought, but I see very few Chinese people in the forums, StackOverflow github etc.

So where are all the chinese software developers? Are they doing all their development collaboration on chinese websites?

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billconan
Because of the censorship, it's super slow to visit those english sites. And of course there is language barrier. The largest tech site in China is perhaps csdn.net
andrewstuart
So how do the latest technologies filter into the Chinese software development scene? Or are they a generation or two behind due to the need for ideas to filter through?
billconan
I think there is no major delay. I don't know too much about those very detailed development technologies. But you often see a hot topic on HN covered by a Chinese press after 2 weeks.

In companies, they're allowed to use vpn services to connect to those English sites.

cool_penguins
There are lots of Chinese, Russian etc... developers but they just stick to websites in their languages mostly, especially Chinese devs.