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samuelstros10/01/20240 repliesview on HN

Hm. Not convincing. Disclaimer: I am the founder of Opral (https://inlang.com/ && https://lix.opral.com/)

The idea of parsing source code to auto inject translations, especially while leveraging machine translations comes up every 2 months.

It’s not solving the problem.

The problem to be solved is change control. Doing translations is (surprise!) cheap compared to controlling changes. Changes referring to the marketing copy changed, the button label changed, a new screen has been added, etc. It needs one system that can track and control changes across apps, translations, files.

If change control is solved, localization boils down to managing CI/CD pipelines.