I am a native English speaker in the US and to me it seems palpably unfair. People much smarter than me have to spend a lot of time struggling with a foreign language, and are still unfairly perceived as less intelligent than native speakers.
I could imagine it might be less unfair in a situation, like in much of Europe, where nobody is a native English speaker but many speak it (sort of like Latin at one time). And there are of course huge benefits from a standard language. But it still bugs me.
Well the question is why you'd want to allow it to become your problem, too, though. Having to debug libraries written in Elder Futhark or, case in point, Arabic, seems much more impossible than it may already seem sometimes, and that's why I'm not going to write a programming language in Swiss German, and keep my comments in English too, for that matter.
I think it comes from a good place in the heart, but people really shouldn't look for ways to drag themselves into other people's problems out of "fairness". Many societies have a nominal interest in teaching English to their people, but fail in practice. Fixing English education (or really language teaching in general) is a far more useful thing than torturing yourself with a language not suited to typewriter keyboards, such as APL or Arabic.
I could imagine it might be less unfair in a situation, like in much of Europe, where nobody is a native English speaker but many speak it (sort of like Latin at one time). And there are of course huge benefits from a standard language. But it still bugs me.