NireBryce

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'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

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tjc
@tjc

In case you want to read about the work I've been doing for my job for the past year or so, related to internationalization, web standards, and programming language design and implementation:

(Feel free to suggest tags I should use to help people who want to mute technical stuff!)


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in reply to @tjc's post:

Ooooh, it's neat to get to understand more of your work! Thanks! I didn't know about the ICU ecology till today, I think, but then again I don't know much about C/C++ and Java. Is the ICU effort reasonably well-supported, in terms of having enough resources for the things that need improving?

(BTW I took my first semester of Russian in college, kind of on a whim, and in the first semester we learned 5 of the 6 cases. And a reason I went ahead and took my second semester of Russian is that I wanted that sixth case under my belt! And then I kept taking Russian and eventually visited Russia and that was my first trip overseas that wasn't a family trip to India.)

Thank you! First, wanting to learn the case system so you can learn Russian is very funny to me (I think most of my classmates would have said the case system was something they put up with so they could learn Russian :)

(I've forgotten basically all of it at this point but at least my vague recollections of the grammar are helping me marginally to understand a use case...)

Second, I do think that ICU, like most open-source projects, could use more participants... at least in the stuff that I touch, most of the commits I see are from Googlers or from other Igalians. There are bindings for other languages, which might be a way for some people to get started: https://icu.unicode.org/related

and there's also ICU4X for Rust, which is basically a separate project AIUI.

Cool stuff! I'm glad to see I18N stuff getting proper attention and language design.

In case you're looking for feedback, one thing that I like to see when reading about code is example inputs/outputs to accompany code snippets.