Assume mainstream adoption as used by around 7% of all github projects

Personally, I’d like to see Nim get that growth.

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      I too wish Esperanto would gain mass adoption but my only qualm with it is the consonant clusters that aren’t friendly for non-European language speakers.

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      Sorry to say, but once I realised how euro-centric, and to my ear/eye, latin-centric esparanto is I completely lost interest.

      I don’t know if anyone has tried, but something which similarly draws influences from the languages that the vast majority of the world speak would be wonderful.

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        You made me think of that xkcd about standards.

        Anyway, the eurocentrism argument, while perhaps true due to the Latin root, seems to be a little bit of a savior complex don’t you think? China itself pushed for Esperanto to be used as a business language internally late last century as I recall.

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          savior complex

          I don’t see that at all.

          It’s about making a language that the maximum amount of cultures can see themselves in, can have at least some familiarity with, and feel like they’ve been acknowledged in the making of a global language … all of which is intended to get maximum buy in around the world to establish a truely international language rather than a Lingua Franca derived from hegemony.

          Maybe China was interested in Esperanto for a bit, but I’m betting like most stories like that it’s heavily exaggerated or outright bogus.

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      What disrupted the fun for me:

      • the rules for articles before languages, countries and their people
      • everything sounds the same / easy to be misunderstood
      • not nearly as internationally approachable as it could be, though obviously that’s almost impossible