In this part of the world the name would be quite political. We only use the letter Č (pronounced as ch) but our neighbors also use Ć (pronounced the same, only softer.. it's literally called "the soft Č"). There are a lot of 1st/2nd/3rd generation immigrants from those countries and their last names almost always end with Ć. So "he/she has a Ć" became a rude way of saying "he/she is an immigrant". And spelling someone's name with a Ć when it's actually Č can result in a very heated argument. I have no doubt you could find developers who would refuse to work with Ć :)
It is Slovenia, as others have guessed. It's just one way people find to express their predjudice, I'm sure others exist in any other part of the world. My last name ends with a C and it sometimes gets written with a Ć and I don't lose my mind because I'm not a bigot. Also, I'm happy to see more and more people standing up for their identity - as in, please put Ć on the form because that's how it's properly spelled; yes, my ancestors come from the south and no, I don't care what you think about that, just do your job properly!
It is remarkable that this exact border (although without the proverbs on Ć) manifests also between Czech Republic and Poland -- in the Czech language there is exactly one hard "Č" and no soft version, whereas Polish has both "cz" (the hard variant) and "Ć" (the soft variant).
It's not a matter of a programming language skipping a nice country, but of some stupid bigots in a nice country self-owning by skipping a programming language, of their own free will.
Discouraging bigots from joining a programming language community is a good thing for that community.
You’ve misunderstood my comment and the one I’m replying to. This person is talking about chalking off an entire country because of a comment they read on HN, without giving it much more thought. Not really my business but IMO they’d be missing out and to be honest you could use this line of reasoning to eliminate basically every popular destination
The existence of people who are anti-immigration would prevent you from visiting the UK, the USA, Italy, Germany, France, Japan ... so yes in this context it is a weird place to draw the line and is pretty small in the context. I'd be curious what country passes this particular purity test ...
Č is present in Czech, Slovak and South Slavic languages of Balkans, as well in Lithuanian, Latvian. It was created by Jan Hus who worked on Czech orthography in 15th century.
The written representation of this sound might vary - Polish Czeski and Czech Česky but the sound mostly remains same.
