[Forgive if this is culturally ignorant somehow]
Apparently the USA has 1.6m programmers, while China has 7m.
Yet I can't think of much Desktop software that is obviously Chinese i.e. the development house is chinese. Dyson Sphere Program and Black Myth: Wukong is the only thing that comes to mind - both games.
Presumably they're producing lots so where is it all? Behind the GFW in some sort of parallel ecosystem that I just don't know about? Or am I using really well translated chinese software regularly & just not realising it?
7m people presumably many of them on 996 schedule must be producing a sizable LoC output...where is it going?
Is all of it in the mobile space a la wechat miniapps?