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Refactoring for i18n after the fact in a large codebase is surprisingly difficult. Many of these places have done some research and made the call they would profit more from continued feature work.

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I actually meant Front end multi-languages support. Like when you go to fb.com or google.com. Simple to do it via todays tools? or is it that hard?

If you hadn’t built it out to start it’s pretty hard. There are a lot of nuances in how you format strings by language so you can’t just translate every string you find. Also keep in mind some strings shown to end users come from calls to the backend, so you’ll need a localization story there.

This also means that you need to add a localization gate to all feature releases, slowing down velocity.

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