Always strange to see code and variables in English and comments in Chinese, but I see it frequently. Not sure whether it's a good or bad thing, just seems a bit inconsistent and a way to ward off potential contributors. It seems you will have to know two languages to contribute, one for the comments and one for the variable and function names.
At the beginning of this project, the author naive to think Chinese comment will attract more Chinese contributors. However, it does not actually work. So the author will consider commenting in English. In the new code.
It's just hard for people to express complex ideas (comments e.g.) in other languages rather than their native language. And variables in code are just basic words, nothing on gramma or other stuff.
> Give me clean mono-language "source" code any day please.
Unfortunately, not many programming languages with German keywords exist. ;-)
No, as a German, I understand your concern. The problem is, you need to be fluent in the language AND use names that fit the variables. I work in High Performance Computing and the code physicists write isn't accessible to me most of the times, just because they use one and two letter variables from their formulas in their code.
Unfortunately you have to name your variables in the context of the domain language. The domain language is usually in your native language. The keywords are in English. It looks horrible but there is no way around it. And you lucky native English speakers have never experienced the horror that are umlauts in filenames across filesystems and encodings.
shudder that reminds me that you can't Control+F "üõöä" properly in Chromium, both "uooa" and "üõöä" are matched, that's for me far more infuriating that breaking filename encoding.
