Why I Write Software in Latin: A Tongue-in-Cheek Case
Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]
In a humorous talk at the Electronic Cash Conference 2025 in Barcelona, TixTown founder and eCash developer Tobias Ruck presents six playful reasons for writing software in Latin. From avoiding ambiguous English terms to impressing peers with classical erudition, Ruck argues that Latin's precision and timelessness could bring unexpected benefits to codebases. The talk, recorded by the eCash channel, offers a lighthearted take on programming language choices.
Latin is a dead language, but that's exactly what makes it perfect for software: it never changes.
- jdb1729
Sic itur ad astra! I spent some time and tokens generating these C99 applications and libraries all in classical Latin: https://github.com/jdb19937/apotheca. They all build with this C99 compiler + arm64 assembler + linker toolchain https://github.com/jdb19937/ccc (CCC = 300) which is included. But my favorite one of these repo is the 100+ test cases https://github.com/jdb19937/corpus that I used to iterate the compiler to bootstrappability. Nota: README.md ignorandum est. Anglice scriptum est ad barbaros ineruditos pecunia emungendos, lege LEGEME.md.
- mrkeen
C already has vel and aut operators, but now we can name them as such!
- not-so-darkstar
When he started reading latin in a japanese accent I lost it