Why Don’t People Code in Chinese?

Chinese characters are perhaps one of the oldest written forms still in use today. When the characters were first invented, they were logograms resembling the shapes and forms of things they were used to describe. Over time, the characters have evolved to be written more easily, and most of the original logographic features have become unrecognizable in the modern written Chinese. I am a computer science major, but as someone who grew up learning Chinese as my first language, I always wonder why the Chinese language has not been used as the basis for one of the mainstream programming languages, especially given its long existence in human history. Just a disclaimer, I am no linguist or programming language expert, so I can only draw on my own experience with the Chinese language and my daily programming tasks to find some clues as to why people don’t code in Chinese. <a href="https://medium.com/@tom_zhang/why-dont-people-code-in-chinese-56b232c59213">Learn More</a>