I just learned that the Qt framework that powers so much of Ubuntu Touch🇩🇪 is Finnish.
Nix was invented buy a Dutch guy
Nobody has mentioned this guy yet
It’s not about tearing others down but about recognizing the talent we have at home.
Scala is Swiss, created at EPFL in Lausanne
Why do you care about the place were it was developed? Languages know no borders. Regardless whether those are natural languages or programming languages.
I mean there’s legitimate concerns of where donations are going to. People don’t want to support bad actor nations.
That’s nonsense. People are not responsible for the country they are born in. Just russia is a morally bankrupt dogshit fucking country doesn’t mean that every russian open source developer is that aswell aswell.
Are we going to pretend that Hyprland and Ladybird don’t exist?
The issues with them aren’t because of their nationality but those individuals specifically.
It’s valuable to know the backgrounds of the software stacks we use.
Mildly
Sure, but there’s a difference between Donaldland and some guys in their basement writing a spec. The people do not necessarily support the government.
It makes more sense to keep the money from companies than free software developers.
Python was created by a Dutch programmer.
Pascal was created by a Swiss programmer.
C# and Typescript were created by a Danish software architect, working for Microsoft.
PHP was created by a Danish-Canadian developer
Ada was originally designed by a team led by a French developer
The original Pascal was created by a Swiss developer, who also worked on Object Pascal alongside a Danish developer.
Scala’s core team are French
They are Swiss (EPFL)
A few from the UK:
- 🇬🇧 ARM and Acorn assembly languages
- 🇬🇧 BBC BASIC
- 🏴 Haggis (reference pseudocode; unused outside of exams)
- 🏴 Draig (Cymraeg implementation of Raku)
Not sure ARM64 really counts as it’s own thing it is so “normal”. (Unlike ARM32/24)
Erlang was developed by Ericsson, a Swedish company.
Why was Erlang not developed in Erlangen though?
Qt originates from Norway. Most of the dev team was in Oslo, with small teams in Berlin and Brisbane.
I agree Qt is a language. C+++. It own preprocessor before the C/C++ preprocessor. Unless that has gone now… been a while since I was made to do Qt.
