Why do you care about the place were it was developed? Languages know no borders. Regardless whether those are natural languages or programming languages.
Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Rules:
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Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.
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Useful Websites
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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
European Instances
Lemmy:
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Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
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๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
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Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
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๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
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๐ช๐บ Europe: https://europe.pub/
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๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ญ France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
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๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
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๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
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๐ธ๐ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
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๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
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๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
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๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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I mean thereโs legitimate concerns of where donations are going to. People donโt 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 donโt exist?
The issues with them aren't because of their nationality but those individuals specifically.
Itโs 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)
Nobody has mentioned this guy yet

A few from the UK:
- ๐ฌ๐ง ARM and Acorn assembly languages
- ๐ฌ๐ง BBC BASIC
- ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Haggis (reference pseudocode; unused outside of exams)
- ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Draig (Cymraeg implementation of Raku)
Not sure ARM64 really counts as it's own thing it is so "normal". (Unlike ARM32/24)
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.
Erlang was developed by Ericsson, a Swedish company.
Why was Erlang not developed in Erlangen though?
Scala is Swiss, created at EPFL in Lausanne
Nix was invented buy a Dutch guy
It's not about tearing others down but about recognizing the talent we have at home.