Fluent VS whatlang-rs

> Typical printf usage is imperative and additive:

> if (enter) printf("Hello "); else printf("Goodbye "); printf("World!\n");

And unless you want your translator to hate you, you really, really mustn’t do this in user-facing output.

(OK, you can if you really want to and if you’re ready to give them the same tools[1], but it won’t be simple. Although I’m unaware of any professional translators supporting this either—most use a CAT, and the Fluent approach ignores those.)

[1] https://projectfluent.org/

I wrote one for creating a Fluent library for PHP.

No. fluent-vue uses Fluent syntax from Mozilla https://projectfluent.org/. Which, I would say is just as powerful as ICU but is much more readable.

I think Mozilla's translation system called Fluent can handle that.

https://projectfluent.org/

After few months of frustration with trying to use the "de-facto" internationalization library for Vue.js - vue-i18n, I've decided it is time to replace it. And that is why I have created fluent-vue. I will write more about it and Fluent syntax it uses in my following blog posts.

fluent

> I'm also not sold on the whole "HTML-style error-recovery"

Having used and written a parser for a similar recoverable localization language (https://projectfluent.org/) I'm sold on it.

It makes a lot of things easier. It's kinda like adding trailing comma to lists. It's both boon when writing lists by hand and generating it via code.

How does it compare to whatlang?

WhatLang is a Python library for detecting the language of a text. It is based on the WhatLang Rust library.

I started working on whatlang project (https://github.com/greyblake/whatlang-rs). In 2017 I started going to Rust interviews. At that moment there were only 3 companies in Berlin that were offering Rust jobs (as far as I know): Parity, Mozilla, 1aim. I had interview with all of them and did not pass. I had classical Ruby/web background, and at that moment Rust was seen as alternative to C++, so many would expect me to know C++ well (but it was not really the case). I did continue working on my open source projects and writing blog posts from time to time. Year 2020 was very different. I was like rust turned from underdog to mainstream. I felt like Rust job openings tripled. Head hunters started writing me on LinkedIn, waw! I got contacted by big CryptoExchange, because they wanted to use my library for technical analysis. Sounds like a dream! Eventually, I find a job at Impero.com, thanks to this subreddit. They posted a job description and I send them my CV. Soon I got hired. It's a remote job, but at that moment it did not make a difference, because of the pandemic.

CHANGELOG: https://github.com/greyblake/whatlang-rs/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Regarding Chinese / Japanese, if I got it correctly Japanese may include Katakana, Hiragana and Mandarin, while Chinese includes only Mandarin characters (again I can be wrong here).