Non-English Programming with Hedy - Felienne Hermans - Copenhagen DevFest 2023

Hedy is a gradual programming language to make learning programming easier, using different language levels. In level 1, there is hardly any syntax at all, for example printing is done with: print hello Copenhagen! In every level, new syntax and concepts are added, until kids are doing a subset of Python in level 18 with conditions, loops, functions variables and lists. Hedy is open source, runs in the browser, is free to use, and available in 47 different languages (Including English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Hindi). In this talk Hedy's creator Felienne will take you through all changes that were necessary to make Hedy work multilingually, with a special emphasis on right to left languages which included extensive changes to the parser and transpiler. The talk will help you understand the technical and cultural implications of inclusive programming (language) design.