<story><title>Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software that we don&apos;t see?</title><text>China is obviously a major world player, but we rarely see articles&amp;#x2F;repos&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;etc., that seem to originate from there, translated or not, or simply referred to. Are we missing out on lots of cool advancements from China? Or do Chinese engineers generally publish in English? Is there some massive Chinese GitHub with cool stuff we don&amp;#x27;t know about? Science is science and I can&amp;#x27;t shake the feeling that we&amp;#x27;re missing out on stuff, but I really have no idea. Would love to hear people&amp;#x27;s thoughts.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>flohofwoe</author><text>I mostly know about software relevant for game development, and there are indeed some very interesting products (most of them open source) coming out of China which are mostly unknown in the West. Some examples from my list:&lt;p&gt;- FairyGUI (UI framework for games): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.fairygui.com&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.fairygui.com&amp;#x2F;index.html&lt;/a&gt;, github: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;fairygui&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;fairygui&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- LayaAir (HTML5 game engine): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;layabox&amp;#x2F;LayaAir&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;layabox&amp;#x2F;LayaAir&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Egret (HTML5 game engine): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;egret-labs&amp;#x2F;egret-core&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;egret-labs&amp;#x2F;egret-core&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Cocos2D-X (2D game engine, this might be the only one that&amp;#x27;s also really popular outside China): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cocos.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cocos.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- everything by Cloudwu (but especially pbc, protocol buffers in C): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;cloudwu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;cloudwu&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software that we don&apos;t see?</title><text>China is obviously a major world player, but we rarely see articles&amp;#x2F;repos&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;etc., that seem to originate from there, translated or not, or simply referred to. Are we missing out on lots of cool advancements from China? Or do Chinese engineers generally publish in English? Is there some massive Chinese GitHub with cool stuff we don&amp;#x27;t know about? Science is science and I can&amp;#x27;t shake the feeling that we&amp;#x27;re missing out on stuff, but I really have no idea. Would love to hear people&amp;#x27;s thoughts.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hanxue</author><text>I work for a multinational tech firm, at their Beijing office. There is no equivalent of massive Chinese Github. Github is used heavily by Chinese developers. There are projects incubated in Chinese tech startups and eventually open sourced, for example the Beego Go web framework.&lt;p&gt;Due to the Great Firewall of China, there is almost a Chinese-only tech ecosystem of Android apps, and other &amp;quot;mini-apps&amp;quot; built on top of Wechat. For example, Jinri Toutiao is a popular app that is almost unheard of outside of China.</text></comment>