It's just rare to get them on HN, because it's a nightmare to go through their docs and they're usually not even attempting to write their code in English. Basically unusable for all intents and purposes, even if it were quality software.
> Basically unusable for all intents and purposes, even if it were quality software.
Only if you don’t have anyone who can’t read Chinese on your team. Also most repositories are not documented at well or at all anyway so language hardly matters.
yes, most repositories arent documented well either, thats definitely true and was part of my point, really.
how are you going to figure out why you're encountering a bug if not even the code itself is written in english?
its fine for learning repositories or simple toy projects, but if you actually want your code to be used... please use the world language. (and no, english isnt my native language either)
A decompiler can't pull contextually appropriate variable and function/method names out of nowhere (not to mention comments), which is the big roadblock when reading foreign-language code.
That is, you're just as likely to be able to follow foreign-language code as you are decompiled code. Either way, you've basically thrown out all the documentation and swapped out all the names for gibberish.
