alt Hacker NewsNaah, my non-english-speaking friends say that the keywords are less than 1% complexity of a programmer's job, so it really doesn't matter.
Also, in most languages you already can name variables/classes/members in any Unicode letters. So only "if/for/while" keywords and stdlib classes remain English. It makes little sense to translate those.
However, in the vast majority of cases, non-ASCII characters are rarely used for variable or function names during programming. This is because they can cause conflicts when using different encoding systems, and some automation tools fail to recognize them. Consequently, programmers in non-English speaking regions must invest more effort into naming variables than English speakers, as they have to translate all localized expressions into English.
When Toss, a Korean unicorn startup, announced that they would start using Korean for variable names within financial contexts, it sparked significant debate and a wide range of reactions among Korean programmers.