Draig, a Welsh Programming Language

This is neat! People who like this might be interested in the awesome Hedy language[0]. It's purpose is education, but it's a single programming language with lots of localisations. Always suprised this idea isn't pursued more elsewhere.

[0] https://www.hedy.org/

Re: Draig, a Welsh Programming Language

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Post by zabzonk » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 2:43 AM UTC

librasteve wrote: post #2

Question: is it a good idea to introduce kids to coding in their mother tongue like this?

i've always given the advice "program in english, comments, variables, function names, everything", and "always use a uk/us keyboard unless you absolutely have to enter localised strings, and even better get someone else to do that"

Re: Draig, a Welsh Programming Language

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Post by yellowapple » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 2:49 AM UTC

Can't wait for a Raku implementation of Lingua::Romana::Perligata.

Re: Draig, a Welsh Programming Language

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Post by lagniappe » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 2:59 AM UTC

429 - Too many requests

Re: Draig, a Welsh Programming Language

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Post by culi » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 3:01 AM UTC

librasteve wrote: post #2

Question: is it a good idea to introduce kids to coding in their mother tongue like this?

As someone who's spoken English since 5, I'm perplexed by this question. I'm genuinely unfamiliar with any perceived downsides and I would love to hear more of your thoughts

Re: Draig, a Welsh Programming Language

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Post by cmwelsh » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 3:08 AM UTC

zabzonk wrote: post #6

librasteve wrote: post #2

Question: is it a good idea to introduce kids to coding in their mother tongue like this?

i've always given the advice "program in english, comments, variables, function names, everything", and "always use a uk/us keyboard unless you absolutely have to enter localised strings, and even better get someone else to do that"

China disregards that and there is an absolutely massive ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software out there if you can read and write their code.