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I heard something that Termux has a lot of Chinese influence, anybody aware of this? I love Termux but that kinda added a bad taste. But I don't have anything to back it up but quotes from trusted people

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The commit history doesn't seem to reflect this [1], and the contributors seems to have just a handful of commits outside of two main committers [2]. Seems to be a tonne of trivial commits merged from some code hackathon [3] [4].

[1] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/commits/master/

[2] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/graphs/contributors

[3] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/commit/549f09573f4631fb...

[4] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/commit/c6dce125104620be...

Termux' package manager wrapper pkg can randomly select Chinese mirrors, but you can remove them from the selection list.

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