Hello,
This is my 11th contribution to Node.js. I’m currently translating this project into Spanish, along with an awesome group of translators and moderators from Utopian + Da Vinci, we are doing our best to do everything correctly. If you are interested in open-source projects, I encourage you to keep reading.
Repository
https://github.com/nodejs/i18n
Project Details
Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a browser. It achieves low latency and high throughput by taking a “non-blocking” approach to serving requests. Basically, Node.js can open, create, read, write, close and delete files on a server, using JavaScript. It also includes tasks that will be executed on certain servers.
I know it can be a bit confusing at first, so let me explain it to you in simpler words:
Let’s say you want to build a software to keep record of your company’s earnings. A feature where viewing your monthly earnings is updated live can be very useful. In that way, if one of your sales employees is busy, another employee could still be seeing the updates live, without reloading the page.
This has been done before using other technologies. However, Node.js is way faster and better. So, yes it’s pretty awesome for developers.
Contribution Specifications
Being such an important project, Node.js is being translated to several languages so it can reach many people around the world. As it for me, I am contributing to the Spanish language.
Translation Overview
During this contribution I continued working on writing-and-running-benchmarks.md, this folder explains how to write and run benchmarks in the core of Node.js, and also how to use their different functions.
I translated the sections Comparing parameters, Running Benchmarks on the CI, Creating a benchmark and Basics of a benchmark.
In my previous contribution I explained the meaning of “Benchmark”. However, I want to complement that information with some interesting facts:
Benchmarks are designed to mimic a particular type of workload on a component or system.
Benchmarking is usually associated with assessing performance characteristics of computer hardware.
When comparing benchmarks, the higher the value of the results, the faster the component, software, or overall computer is.
If you would like to read more about it, I recommend you this link.
Here is a sample text with its translation:
English:
Beware that any code outside the main function will be run twice in different processes. This could be troublesome if the code outside the main function has side effects. In general, prefer putting the code inside the main function if it's more than just declaration.
Spanish:
Tenga en cuenta que cualquier código fuera de la función main será ejecutado dos veces en procesos diferentes. Esto podría ser problemático si el código fuera de la función main tiene efectos secundarios. Por lo general, prefiera colocar el código dentro de la función main si es más que una declaración.
Since the text is related to computer science it is very important to do some research before translating a word if you are not sure about its meaning. As a matter of fact, some words were left untranslated on purpose, otherwise, their true meaning would be lost in the translation.
Languages
Source Language: English
Translated Language: Spanish
I have worked as a translator for the project Da Vinci Polyglot and I am currently working as a language moderator for the Utopian + Da Vinci translation category.
And of course, I am part of the Spanish team!
Word Count
I translated 1085 words on this contribution.
