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A few years ago I found out about a programming language written in #Gaeilge (the Irish language) called Setanta. I tinkered a little with it then but hit some road blocks and it seemed to have been left unsupported.

The creator Eoin Davey developed it when he was a teenager, later honed while studying computer science at NUI Maynooth in 2016.

Today I learned that it is still updated and there are some pretty great tutorials to have some fun with an IDE.

https://try-setanta.ie/

#programming

Setanta | Teanga Ríomhchlarúcháin / Programming Language

Setanta - An teanga ríomhchlarúcháin as Gaeilge - The Irish language Programming Language. Setanta is a modern, simple and friendly programming language that's 100% in Irish.
try-setanta.ie
#programming #gaeilge
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Fionnáin
Fionnáin
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On this, I remember a really good article from around 2020 that was written by a computer scientist about a programming language written in Hindi, and how it subverts embedded colonial language in computers. I can't find the article any more. Anyone know what I am talking about/where I could find it?
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Anne
Anne
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Neither of these are the resource you're looking for, but you might like them:

https://esoteric.codes/blog/jon-corbett indigenous coding framework and cree#

https://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/ arabic programming language qalb


Interview with Jon Corbett

Corbett discusses how Cree#, which began as a
esoteric.codes
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Fionnáin
Fionnáin
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@anne amazing, thank you so much for sharing this. Both are fascinating. The Cree# and Ancestral Code interview gives a lot of context and motivation for why they took this approach. Really grateful for the links!
@Anne
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Relinde Jurrius
Relinde Jurrius
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Probably not exactly what you were looking for, but it made me think of the programming language Hedy, that is available in multiple different languages including Hindi: https://www.hedy.org

Hedy - Textual programming made easy

www.hedy.org
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Yoel Matveyev
Yoel Matveyev
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This can be easily done in Lisp and it would naturally look kind of like Irish because of the syntax, e.g. (is-ionann X agus Y) or (an-bhfuil X níos-mó-ná Y).
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Fionnáin
Fionnáin
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@yoel yes for sure but that also makes it a translation exercise from English to Irish, beginning with English-led (colonial) linguistic forms and traditions. There are many concepts in Irish (and every language) that don't easily translate into other languages so having a programming language built to a specific spoken language potentially opens the door to programming with these concepts.

A couple of the articles linked in the replies here write about this specifically, and better than I can.

@Yoel Matveyev

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