What is bitoduc.fr?

bitoduc.fr is a website that champions the use of French vocabulary for computer concepts. Instead of defaulting to English-derived jargon, the project catalogs and promotes native French alternatives for common tech terms. It serves as both a reference and a gentle nudge toward linguistic diversity in a field where English dominates. At its core, the project is a curated list of translations stored in a structured data file. The site itself presents these entries so visitors can look up what a given English term might be called in proper French. The README notes that the project recently simplified how it organizes this data, moving away from an older format toward one with a cleaner structure, a sign the maintainers care about keeping things manageable as the list grows. The audience is broad: French-speaking developers, translators, technical writers, educators, and anyone curious about how to talk about software in French without sprinkling in English loanwords. A teacher might use it to find appropriate vocabulary for a coding bootcamp in francophone Africa, a documentation team might consult it to keep their user guides consistent, a language enthusiast might simply enjoy browsing. What's notable is that this is as much a cultural project as a technical one. The code is straightforward, a JavaScript site backed by a JSON file, but the value lies in the community effort to agree on and disseminate French terms. By making the list open and the site public, the project turns what could be a private glossary into a shared resource.