Lingua used in a sentence

Lingua in a sentence as a noun

...the lingua franca...Here is a random irony that I like.

C isn't expressive or safe enough to deserve to be the lingua franca like this.

English isn't just the language of IT, it's become the lingua franca of science and commerce.

MS Excel is the lingua franca of non-programmers.

> Code is becoming the new lingua franca of Web activists around the nationNo, it's not.

A Spanish journalist will read Spanish and English sources, etc. Having the "lingua franca" is a huge asset for the Anglosphere.

If you want to build a web app in Haskell instead of the web's true lingua franca, all you're accomplishing is making it harder to hire and harder to collaborate.

"The goal of the Dash effort is ultimately to replace JavaScript as the lingua franca of web development"and"What will Google developers be using?

I'd wager that the vast majority of professional software engineers work on the web, or very close to the web, and JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web.

There is also a bantu language that isn't really associated with one of the major tribes but is a kind of lingua franca beside english in the urban centres.

Hardly surprising again that the Anglo universities get a guernsey there, given that English is the lingua franca these days, particularly in science.

While I agree that C is a sub-optimal output format in that you have to compile the output, it is also the clear lingua franca for systems programming and assembly generation these days.

"JavaScript becoming the lingua franca for mobile development" says a report commissioned by a company hawking a mobile framework where the API is… JavaScript.

The practical advantages of having such a lingua franca are simply overwhelming, and I really think that any step towards localization is a step backwards for everybody.

The Dutch were far ahead of everyone learning English on the continent, even before English was considered the modern lingua-franca, which personally I think really gathered steam with the adoption of the internet in the mid-90s.

Python is great because it's sort of a lingua franca for people who are well-versed in conventional, Algol-based imperative programmingit boils it down to its essence and omits anything unnecessaryso to a person who was versed in Java/C/C++/Perl/PHP/&c previously, moving to Python feels like everything unnecessary has dropped away.

The moment I read "I believe those interfaces are inferior", my mind started dumping half a dozen paragraphs of ranting, but that would be painful to write, so I'll just leave it at an analogy to try and make you see how you're the one being closed minded here:That's a bit like a native Esperanto speaker saying "I don't know what's all the fuss about English being a lingua franca, I learned how to say hello and goodbye and I don't feel I can access all that wealth of knowledge people claim is available to them.