There's been an explosion of Chinese engineers entering in the last few years - more noticeably for me due to Vuejs. They provide Chinese documentations and I'm also seeing many third party github components being created only written in chinese.<p>A long assumption but I'm thinking it might be beneficial for me to learn some chinese to be able to take advantage of projects deriving from the Chinese community.<p>Anyone know how much Chinese I'll need to learn to be able to read tech documentations? 1 year? 5 years?
You're better off delving deeper into learning the actual framework instead of studying a foreign language.<p>Something similar happened with NGINX a few years ago. Almost all documentation was in Russian. But once it grew in popularity a few people just translated the documentation over to English.<p>If you had studied Russian just to understand NGINX better, it would've been a huge waste of time, and my guess is that it'll be similar in this situation.<p>The caveat, of course, is if you want to study Chinese for other personal reasons. In that case, by all means.