My thoughts exactly! but it looks like op is Dutch in which language google translation tells me "mens" can mean "person", so hopefully it is just an esl thing

Which is just a perfect example of why anything "universal" is quite hard in practice when these misunderstandings happen even between English and Dutch.

Not really, it is more like counter-example; if the author would have been writing in his native language this might not have been issue. So it supports the claim that allowing people to work with their native languages would reduce mistakes.

Of course this also implies that the translations should be done by professional translators, instead of the authors themselves.

Which I'm sure the authors would agree with:

> The Citrine community is working hard to provide translation files. We use machine translations if we can't find a translator yet. We appreciate any help to improve language support!

Well, no, 'mens' translates to 'human' and wouldn't normally be used in this sentence (it'd put unnecessary emphasis on the species of who would be programming, which just feels weird).

I can't think of a Dutch version of the same sentence that wouldn't make the subject explicitly male (well, there are some archaic versions that would use 'alleman' but I can't think of one that wouldn't sound weird).

Supposing, of course, that this is an ESL problem, I'd expect the original Dutch sentence to have used the Dutch word 'men', which means the same as the English 'one' as in "one must not ...", or the 'man' in 'mankind'.

Ah, but can it speak Emoji? Because, bless them.

Not the first time I’ve seen a “let’s make coding more accessible” project make this mistake, alas.

[insert your own crying-with-laughter emojis here, cos HN’s comment form ate mine]

“Man” obviously means “a human being” in this context.