Programming languages can be hard to grasp for non-English speakers. Step forward, Bato: A Ruby port for Filipinos
A Filipino developer is hoping his handmade Ruby port will help bring coding skills to some of the Philippines's poorest communities.
Joel Bryan Juliano says he built Bato as a way for speakers of Tagalog – the most widely-spoken language in the nation – to be able to learn the basics of programming without also having to be fluent in English. Today's coding languages tend to be built around English grammar, which is a problem for people without a grasp on English.
A software engineer with Altus Digital Capital by day, Juliano told The Register he developed Bato as an educational tool for skilling up family members, and quickly saw how it could be used to show the basics of programming without language barriers.
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