122: Chapter 122 It's Not Impossible to Be King!

Lin Yuan's words echoed within the glass partition.

Yang Lin stood where he was, carefully savoring the rhetorical question Lin Yuan had just thrown out.

"What could be more suitable than Chinese?"

These few words rolled over and were chewed upon repeatedly in his mind.

The programming common sense he had built up over decades was being forcibly dismantled by an irresistible force.

This was absurdly ahead of its time.

Yet, it was also extremely logical.

Suddenly.

A thought flashed through Yang Lin's mind with a "buzz."

He jerked his head around to look at Lin Yuan.

"Wait, Chief Engineer Lin."

"Since the underlying layer of Brain-like Bionic Computing uses pure Chinese programming..."

He swallowed, his Adam's apple bobbing violently.

"Then that Hidden Dragon Operating System you just gave to those equipment manufacturers, could it be..."

Yang Lin didn't dare finish his sentence, because that guess was simply too crazy.

Lin Yuan still had his hands casually tucked in his trouser pockets, the corners of his lips slowly curving into a subtle arc.

"What do you think, Director Yang?"

Yang Lin opened his mouth, then closed it again.

The answer was already written in Lin Yuan's confident demeanor.

"The Hidden Dragon System itself is an underlying system tailor-made for Brain-like Intelligence."

Lin Yuan straightened up from the edge of the table and tilted his chin toward the neat Chinese code on the screen.

"It has to handle all the computational scheduling for the Brain-like architecture and achieve the deepest level of coupling and adaptation with Brain-like Bionic Computing."

"The underlying computing engine is already Chinese-driven, so why use English for the operating system?"

He spread his hands, his tone carrying a hint of matter-of-factness.

"Wouldn't that just be adding a layer of translation loss for no reason?"

"Therefore, the Hidden Dragon System is naturally a Chinese operating system as well."

"From kernel scheduling instructions to upper-level application interfaces, the entire chain is in Chinese."

"Only in this way can we squeeze out one hundred percent of the performance of Brain-like Intelligence."

Yang Lin's tense body relaxed, and he let out a long breath.

He had been working in technology for most of his life and had never dreamed that one day he would see a pure Chinese operating system.

It wasn't one of those domestic trash products that were just re-skinned, labeled, and used to scam funding, but a super system that thought in Chinese from its very bones, from its deepest genetic level.

But after the shock, a highly realistic, and arguably fatal, problem quickly popped into the mind of this veteran.

Yang Lin crossed his arms over his chest, his brows tightly furrowed into a " river" shape, staring at the screen.

"A Chinese operating system..."

It sounded passionate enough, enough to fully maximize national pride.

But existing factory equipment, industrial control terminals, and mobile applications from major manufacturers all ran programs developed based on English systems.

If they suddenly switched to a brand-new Chinese underlying layer, what would happen to those old applications?

They couldn't just scrap everything and start over, could they?

Just the production line control system of a large manufacturing enterprise could easily consist of millions of lines of code.

Rewrite it all?

The cost and time involved—let alone a single enterprise, even the entire national industrial system couldn't withstand such growing pains!

This thought had barely been in Yang Lin's mind for two seconds.

Before Lin Yuan's clear, steady voice rang out.

"Director Yang, your brows are furrowed so tightly—are you pondering the compatibility issues with old equipment and old applications?"

Yang Lin was suddenly stunned, subconsciously looking up at Lin Yuan.

Could this kid read minds?!

Lin Yuan didn't wait for his response, casually gesturing in the air with his finger.

"Rest assured, I've already thought about this."

"The underlying genes of the Hidden Dragon System are indeed Chinese, but on top of the system kernel, I have built in a complete 'cross-language seamless compatibility layer'."

He crossed his hands and paced a couple of steps beside the workstation as if he were taking a leisurely stroll.

"Applications developed on English systems on existing equipment can run perfectly on the Hidden Dragon System through this compatibility technology."

"No need for re-development, no need to rewrite code on a large scale."

"It's directly compatible, and because of the optimization of Brain-like scheduling, it can even run faster than it did on the original English system!"

Yang Lin's furrowed brows instantly relaxed, and his eyes widened abruptly.

No need to scrap everything and start over?

That completely solved the biggest obstacle to implementation.

Especially for heavy equipment and precision processing production lines in factories.

Once a production line stops, the money burned every minute is an astronomical figure.

If changing a system meant stopping production for a month or two, or even half a year for re-adaptation, then no matter how good the technology was, enterprises might not dare to switch.

But if the Hidden Dragon System could be compatible with existing applications, then enterprises would only need to swap out the underlying system, and everything above it would run as usual.

The threshold for switching systems was flattened in an instant.

"As for the subsequent construction of a brand-new ecosystem—"

Lin Yuan tilted his head, looking so relaxed that it didn't seem like he was discussing a topic capable of overturning the global software industry.

"Director Yang, who do you think understands Chinese best in this world?"

Yang Lin was stunned, subconsciously blurting out:

"Need you ask? Of course, it's us Xia people."

"Exactly."

Lin Yuan laughed and tapped his finger casually in the air.

"Chinese is our mother tongue."

"In the past, to do programming, one had to hold their nose and get past the hurdle of English grammar."

"How many talented young people in our country weren't blocked by logic or algorithms, but were scared off by that pile of rigid English reserved words and complex environment configurations?"

He held up a finger and shook it gently.

"But now, it's different."

"Once the Hidden Dragon System's Chinese programming system is rolled out, the threshold for programming for our people will drop straight to the floor!"

"Everyone won't need to rote-memorize those English reserved words anymore, nor will they need to check documentation for half a day just for a preposition combination."

"When writing code in one's own mother tongue, there will no longer be that damned 'translation delay' between the brain's logic and the fingers tapping the keyboard!"

"With our Xia nation's terrifying base of over a billion people, even if only one percent are activated by this extremely low-threshold system to become developers, that's over ten million!"

"With tens of millions of native-speaking developers pouring in, what ecosystem do you have to worry about?"

Hearing this, the heat that had been churning in Yang Lin's chest finally surged up another half-inch.

The words were crude, but the logic was sound.

The essence of programming is expressing logic.

When language is no longer an obstacle, and when "if you can speak, you can write code" becomes reality, then the Xia nation's massive population base will be transformed into the world's most terrifying engineer dividend!

But Lin Yuan's trump card didn't end there.

"And, Director Yang, don't forget one more thing."

He pointed vaguely at the Chinese code on the screen.

"The Hidden Dragon System is not a bare-bones operating system."

"It is currently the only underlying system in the world that natively supports Brain-like Intelligence!"

As this sentence landed, Yang Lin's pupils shrank slightly.

Lin Yuan's finger drew a small circle in the air.

"As for this thing called Brain-like Intelligence, only we have it in the whole world."

"You want to use a system from The Other Side of the Ocean? Fine, then just honestly use the traditional architecture and run traditional algorithms."

"Want to use Brain-like Intelligence? Sorry, only the Hidden Dragon System can run it."

"This isn't some ecological competition; this is a generational crushing."

"Tell me, who will future users choose?"

Yang Lin didn't say anything, but his arms had already relaxed from his chest.

The technical materials from Lin Yuan had already clearly stated the weight of Brain-like Intelligence.

Once implemented, the crushing of existing technology would be on a dimensional level.

And this thing was locked and bound to the Hidden Dragon System by Lin Yuan.

Want to use it?

Change the system.

Don't want to change?

Then you can hold onto your English system and be completely cut off from the core intelligent technology of the next era.

"Besides."

Lin Yuan shrugged, the smile in his eyes bright yet profound.

"We happen to have hit a good time."

"On the mobile side, the old generation of Symbian is already on the decline, while the new generation of smart systems is just starting; the ecosystem is far from solidified, and everyone is scrambling for territory."

"The PC side is much the same; although Windows has a large family and business, users have never been loyal to a specific brand, but to the experience."

"At this juncture of the alternation between the old and new eras, with the Hidden Dragon System holding the trump card of 'Brain-like Intelligence', we can just flip the table and charge in..."

Lin Yuan tilted his head slightly, his eyes carrying a kind of confidence.

"Why not become a new king."