Can you explain what is "autoloading doc files" ? Your link does not work for me.

Are you suggesting that we should add translations for multiple languages, or just the ability for godoc to show comments from different languages ? How do you propose these new language strings be stored ?

hi @agnivade, updated the link. forgot to add https://

1. I'm not sure about autoloading doc files means, just translated the term in description from the repo. need to dig the source code.

2. adding ability for godoc to show comments from different languages is preferable, so both google and the community can do translations, and popular third party libs can benefit from that

3. no idea, need more thinking :)

This feature is important for teaching millions of non English speakers all around the world. Perhaps godoc could accept for every .go file there could be additional .go.doc files in a doc/language_code subdirectory with the translations of the documentation for that language. The format could be something like the comments extracted from the normal go file, keyed by the first words.

@agnivade Seeing the need for this felt by several of our users in China, as well as my own needs as a non native English speaker, I think this issue should be given more priority. Currently it is too hard to use godoc to translate the Go documentation.

I am not exactly sure what you mean by "given more priority". This is an open issue and anybody is free to work on it. I am in no position to assign tasks to the Go team. But I will ping @dmitshur to check if this is something that can be brought under his radar.

On side note: #22171 also tackles the lang attribute in the html tag.

OK, thanks for notifying the right people and for the link.