NADA

The neutral standard for reading and writing code in your own language. A non-profit foundation (Dutch Stichting).

Unicode for code-as-thought.

Let everyone read and write real code in their own language.

Stated once; everything else follows from it.

Roughly five in six people don’t read English fluently. Code is almost entirely written in English — so programming begins by locking most of humanity out of its own tools.

NADA shows you the code in your own language while you read and write it. The program does not change, so it still runs everywhere.

Nothing about how the program runs is changed.

def greet(name):
    if name:
        return f"Hello, {name}"

परिभाषा greet(name):
    अगर name:
        वापसी f"Hello, {name}"

Only the words built into the code change. The names and text you wrote stay the same. The program runs the same in both. Try it at nada.build.

The same idea, shown in each language. What you see changes. The program does not.

• 130+ human languages usable today · 79 already past 70% · 135 in progress
• 19 of 94 programming languages fully done
• 4,182,470 words translated, and counting
• 17,242 common software terms across 36 toolkits
• A free app and a VS Code add-on — available now

Every language is mapped → deepened → reviewed; 79 are already past 70% core-term coverage.

Coverage only deepens — the numbers go one way.

Most people cannot read or write real code. NADA shows each person the code in their own language. Now more people can read it, learn from it, and build with it.

The program that runs stays the same.

A paid app at nada.build pays for all of this. Money from the paid app keeps the language data free for everyone. No single company controls it.

Like Unicode, the W3C, and the IETF.

Bring more languages to full coverage, keep the tools open, and keep the standard free and independent. For example, fully funding one regional language brings several more online.

The ask is a conversation.

For funders who back neutral public infrastructure.

hello@nadalang.org

The product lives at nada.build · governance memo on request.