I’ve answered many questions and thought up fantastic solutions…
In the safety of my own head…
I felt validated when seniors came up with the same or similar conclusions…
I gave myself a pat on the back each time it happened…
I was way off a few times, but no one knew it…
I was safe in my own head…
Eventually, I realised I was letting my team down by not speaking up…
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![<div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ddraig-goch-featured.jpg?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>Part of traveling the world as an Anglophone involves the uncomfortable realization that everyone else is better at learning your language than people like you are at learning theirs. It’s particularly obvious in the world of programming languages, where English-derived language and syntax rules the roost.</p>
<p>It’s always <code>IF foo THEN bar</code>, and never <code>SI foo ALORS bar</code>. It is now possible to do something akin to <code>OS foo YNA bar</code> though, because [Richard Hainsworth] has created <a href="https://dev.to/finanalyst/creating-a-new-programming-language-draig-503p" target="_blank">y Ddraig (the Dragon), a programming language using Welsh language as syntax</a>. (The Welsh double D, “Dd” is pronounced something like an English soft “th” as in “their”)</p>
<p>Under the hood it’s not an entirely new language, instead it’s a Welsh localisation of the <a href="https://raku.org/" target="_blank">Raku</a> language. <a href="https://raku.land/zef:l10n/L10N::CY" target="_blank">A localisation file</a> is created, that can as we understand it handle bidirectional transcription between languages. The write-up goes into detail about the process.</p>
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