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Discussion on: Do you feel comfortable learning in your own language or do you prefer English? (For non English-native speakers)

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Todor Todorov

Hi Nadine,

Bulgarian here.
I feel exactly like you described it.
Long time ago I realized that code, also code comments and documentation - everything should be English. You never know who will maintain your code in the future and it does not matter if he/she is a native English speaker - English is somehow a standard for the dev world.

Nice "did you know" mention for Python:

In the latest Python versions you can write variable names in whatever language you want (unicode variables), so this is possible:

тодор = 3

Nevertheless, the recommendation is not to use this feature :)