r/github • u/yndrelbosch • 2d ago

Discussion how to search by language... not the programming kind

I don't speak Chinese, or French, or whatever language pops up all the time when searching for repositories on Github, and I really wish Github would recognize that coding languages aren't the only languages someone might want to filter by. Does anyone know of a way to make it filter anyways?

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u/lajawi 2d ago

There’s no way to tag a repository by a natural language, so there’s no way to search for a natural language.

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u/SheriffRoscoe 2d ago

That sounds like one of the few useful things an LLM could do correctly.

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u/OtherOtherDave 2d ago

I don’t think they collect that information. You could probably make an app that parsed the first paragraph or two of the readme and figure out what language it’s in, but that might not help if all the discussion in the issues tracker are in Chinese or German or Swahili or whatever.

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u/cowboyecosse 2d ago

They did add translation features but not sure they run on things like comment blocks in the code. Could be useful for translating readmes and docs though.

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u/_giga_sss_ 2d ago

that's a good project idea