translate English-based programming languages to be more inviting for those in non-English countries
This is an idea I had after reading an article about the prevelance of english within programming. After realising how english centric the world of software is and how uninviting it can be for those with non-english backgrounds, I began looking around to see if there have been other attempts at resolving this problem. Although some language specific attempts exist (and some even quite successful), I was unable to find any that acted as a general tool and so I thought I would do my part by making a tool that could hopefully solve this or atleast provide a starting point for a solution to this problem.
This is a relatively simple translation tool at its current stage. It takes in a translation file that acts as a mapping or dictionary from one language to another. It then applies this dictionary to a file to translate it from one language to another.
All the source code is currently under main. An example translation file for the c programming language that goes from english to french is also available. To test this, you can run this against any c program.
To do so, first simply compile it with your compiler of choice. e.g. g++ main.cc -o translate
Then after compilation, you can run something like this: ./translate c-en-fr test.c
Where "test.c" is a c program.
For example, a c simple c program that looks like this:
int main() {
return 0;
}
would be translate into something like:
ent principale() {
retourne 0;
}
This system can be easily extendable to more languages by simply adding more of these translation files.