Completely unrelated to Catalan (Català), the language spoken in Catalonia (Catalunya). I think if someone wants to google a question about this, "catala language beginner hello world" won't help them much.
I can only conclude that they didn't know that. It's such a bad name; we won't even be able to google "catala lang" because ... Catala is also a "lang"!
Imagine someone creates a programming language called Russian. Good luck googling "russian lang".
> given that the major contributors seems to be from paris / bordeaux i am pretty sure they know about catalan.
Yes, but did they know that català is Catalan for Catalan? In French, as in English, it is catalan instead (well, English always capitalises it, French doesn't, but the spelling is identical).
