Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork
I applaud efforts like this. zmguy writes that we should work to defragment the world. But who are english speakers to expect everyone to speak english? I think we need more fragmentation. We've defragmented enough already.<p>Diversity is a great thing. The more diverse we are,  the more diverse our worldviews are and the more creative we become. Maybe there is more conflict, but who is to say that more conflict is a bad thing? As I recall there were studies on different personalities in multilingual people. (Although I believe it's true observing myself, you know how every study can have a study disproving it).<p>When I started learning programming there were a few resources available only in russian on russian forums(RE related) same with chinese. At the same time people who didn't know any better think russians are technologically behind and still do.<p>I recently had a discussion with someone in the University who was blaming them(them including russians, chinese speakers and others) for not making information more readily available to him. China, Japan, Russia, Iran, probably a bunch of Arab countries, Germany(although this one is argueably moving to english as scientific language) have vibrant scientific communities, that you can only understand if you speak the respective language.<p>If the numbers are right [1] (which i doubt, i assume both the chinese and the english l2 speakers to be much more) then maybe it is us who should make more available in chinese. Also keep in mind that for a very long time Arab was the defacto scientific language of south east asia.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...</a><p>edit: i don't normally ask for explanations, but if you downvote i'd appreciate an explanation in this context.