128: Chapter 128 The Era of Universal Programming?

"Announce it to the whole society?"

Yang Lin and Lin Yu stopped what they were doing at the same time, their gazes falling in unison upon Lin Yuan's young face.

After a brief moment of astonishment, Yang Lin was the first to recover.

He nodded slowly, his lean arms crossed tightly over his chest.

The release of the programming technology was only a matter of time.

When Lin Yuan had discussed ecosystem issues with him before, he had already explained this logic thoroughly.

Although the Hidden Dragon System had a built-in cross-language compatibility layer that allowed old applications to run, it was ultimately just compatibility, not native support.

To truly squeeze out the performance of the Hidden Dragon System and fully unleash the potential of the Brain-like Intelligence, a brand-new native ecosystem based on Chinese programming had to be established.

Relying solely on them, the researchers, plus the programmers from those equipment manufacturers to write code—even if they worked around the clock and worked themselves to death at their desks—would not be enough to build an ecosystem empire that could cover all walks of life.

The only way was to release the development platform.

Let countless potential developers from across the country flood in.

Utilize the extremely low barrier to entry of native-language programming to thoroughly stimulate the vast engineer dividend among the populace.

Only then could this grand chess game targeting the global software ecosystem be truly brought to life.

Lin Yuan had his hands loosely tucked into his trouser pockets, the corners of his lips curling into a faint, almost imperceptible arc.

"Our engineering implementation speed here is extremely fast. From the major equipment manufacturers, news has also come in that the new generation of smartphones equipped with the Hidden Dragon System has already entered the prototype testing stage."

"The stage for the hardware has been set; someone has to perform the play of the software."

Yang Lin tilted his head slightly, his mind racing.

Since the prototypes were already out, mass production and distribution were not far off.

"The ecosystem does indeed need to be laid out in advance."

Yang Lin rubbed his chin and nodded at Lin Yuan.

"If we wait until the phones are on the market to do it, even if there are compatible applications available, it won't be perfect in the end."

Lin Yu had no objections either, pushing up the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"The Institute of Computing has spent half a month already fully verifying the feasibility and efficiency advantages of this Chinese programming system."

He paused, his tone carrying a hint of undisguised anticipation and mischievousness. "I'm actually quite curious to see what kind of reaction people outside will have when they see all-Chinese code for the first time."

Yang Lin grinned but didn't reply, though his gloating expression said it all.

Just think about how they, a group of old hands who had been doing English programming for decades, had been stunned when they first saw Chinese code.

If it were those ordinary programmers outside?

Wouldn't their worldviews be shattered on the spot?

Lin Yuan didn't linger on this topic, raising his hand to gesture vaguely at the two of them.

"Alright, you two continue to push forward with the final stages of engineering, and I'll go find the Dean to report this and go through the procedure."

Yang Lin responded, turned around, and sat back down in front of his computer.

Lin Yu also nodded slightly, picked up the folder on the table, and turned to walk in the direction of the Institute of Computing.

Lin Yuan exited the AI Algorithm Deduction Zone and walked along the corridor toward the Dean's office.

His pace was steady, but in his mind, he was already outlining the chain reaction that would follow the announcement.

Once this card of Chinese programming was played, the ripples it stirred up would definitely not remain solely within the technical circles.

This concerned cultural identity, national sentiment, and the most sensitive string buried deep in the hearts of over a billion people.

At exactly four o'clock that afternoon.

The homepage of the official website of the Xia Academy of Sciences updated with another announcement without any warning.

[Notice Regarding the Chinese Programming Technology Guide and the Open Beta Experience of the Hidden Dragon Development Platform]

Besides a simple explanation, the main text only included the Chinese programming technology guide and download links for the development environment.

That was all.

But on today's internet, the official website of the Xia Academy of Sciences was long past being an obscure, ignored site.

Ever since the Photolithography Machine burst onto the scene, it had become a key target for countless domestic and foreign technology media, intelligence agencies, and even ordinary netizens to keep an eye on.

Crawler scripts on major forums refreshed the page twenty-four hours a day without interruption.

Not even a minute after this announcement was posted.

"Beep beep beep beep—!"

The piercing notification sound for special alerts exploded one after another in the offices of editors-in-chief of major tech media outlets.

The sound of countless keyboards clattering merged into one.

The tech section editors of major portals, not even having fully understood the content, relied on their keen sense of smell to directly bold and highlight the title in red, pushing it to the front page headlines.

On social media platforms, posts carrying screenshots sprang up like mushrooms after rain.

Initially, everyone was just attracted by the gimmick of "Xia Academy of Sciences releases a new announcement."

After all, the Xia Academy of Sciences had been quiet for over half a month.

The buzz surrounding the Photolithography Machine and the base stations hadn't even subsided, and many netizens were eagerly looking forward to new moves.

But when they clicked into the screenshots and carefully read the title, many people were left confused, followed by furrowed brows.

"Chinese programming? Development platform?"

In the cognition of most ordinary netizens, programming, as an extremely professional thing, was entirely made up of dense English symbols.

Even if there were occasional domestic software pieces operating under the banner of "Chinese programming," they had long since been thoroughly exposed as nothing more than an English underlying layer with a localized shell, purely meant to deceive people.

The Xia Academy of Sciences, as the highest scientific research institution, surely wouldn't stoop to such skin-swapping tricks.

Carrying this curiosity, hundreds of thousands of netizens followed the links and flooded into the download channel of the Xia Academy of Sciences.

A well-known domestic technical exchange forum.

The section that usually discussed open-source code and hardware adaptation was quickly completely flooded by dozens of new posts.

The initial posts still carried a hint of scrutiny and suspicion.

"Just saw the announcement from the Xia Academy of Sciences, currently downloading that Hidden Dragon Development Platform. It's over a hundred megabytes, not big. Don't know what kind of medicine they're selling."

"Probably just some teaching demonstration software. To really do Chinese programming, you can't get around the underlying logic."

"Install it first and see."

A few minutes later. The first batch of users who finished downloading and installing clicked open the executable file with the minimalist dragon icon.

The interface popped open. A refreshing, distinctly Chinese UI layout.

No unnecessary plugins, no cumbersome environment configuration requirements.

Clicked to enter the "Example Library."

When the rows of neatly arranged pure Chinese instructions appeared on the screen, countless programmers, students, and tech enthusiasts sitting in front of their computers stopped what they were doing in unison.

The faint light emitted by the screen reflected off face after face of stunned expressions.

The mouse wheel was stiffly scrolled down.

No English reserved words that they knew by heart. No complex nesting that required secondary translation.

Variable declaration, logic judgment, loop control, concurrent scheduling. All were Chinese characters that struck directly at the essence.

A simple multi-threaded processing program, clearly listed using a subject-verb-object structure that perfectly matched the thinking habits of the country's people.

The information density was astonishingly high.

Functionality that originally required dozens of lines of English code to implement was here clearly explained in just a few lines of Chinese.

In the forum, after a brief silence, a complete explosion followed.

The number of posts soared exponentially.

"Holy crap! Brothers, I'm stunned!"

"This isn't just a skin, I just looked at it, everything has changed. This is a completely new architecture from top to bottom!"

"It's too terrifying. This instruction flow is perfectly in line with the thinking logic of our Xia people. I even feel that as long as you know Chinese characters, you can just read the manual for a few days and start writing code directly!"

Fanatical emotions spread along the internet cables.

The tremors in the technical circle quickly spread to the entire network.

Related topics broke into the trending lists of major social media platforms in a very short time.

#Xia Academy of Sciences Releases Chinese Programming Platform#

#Hidden Dragon Development Platform Open Beta#

#The Era of Universal Programming in Xia Country Arrives#