Tech workers in Latin America want Spanish their primary language of programming (restofworld.org)

I've always been bad at English but learning the dozen of words that are always used isn't really a problem. The lack of learning material was though

The Hackerverse will handle this as it handles most things - it will be viewed as damage and routed around or it will be considered irrelevant and accepted. If the language elements themselves are transliterated, there would have to be a formal standard to relate the elements-in-English with the element-in-Spanish so that the compiler can do a Pass to convert them into the supported input. Or, front-ends could be cloned which strikes me as more brittle (changes to a larger code base).

I wonder how real of a problem this is -- for example, in classical music, a lot of terms and directives come from Italian: eg forte, piano, tempo (the word itself and the various degrees from largo to presto) etc.

Even if you don't otherwise learn Italian, as a musician you quickly learn what they mean and it would be unusual to see those notated in English even as a native English speaker.

No, I don't. I'm a latino tech worker living in Latin America. If I I were to program in Spanish, I would be closing the global market for my profession. I have seen Russians love Java. I have seen much sustained interest in Go from the Chinese. That is a global market, not the tower of Babel. JS is enough of a nightmare as it is, just imagine if there were localized versions. I have seen it in the first localized versions of Excel years ago. SUMA instead of SUM, so a Spanish Excel sheet only worked on a Spanish Excel. I'm glad now the internal representation is language independent.