# General Translation Overview: Introduction
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title: Introduction
description: Learn how General Translation's full-stack localization platform fits together and choose a quickstart.

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General Translation connects your application code, content sources, translation infrastructure, and review workflows in one platform.

## Quickstarts [#quickstarts]

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*New to localization? Start with [Key concepts](/docs/overview/key-concepts) for the vocabulary used throughout these docs.*

## About General Translation [#what-is]

General Translation builds the full localization stack.

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  <IntroFeature icon="libraries" title="Open-source i18n libraries">Internationalize your codebase and load translations at runtime.</IntroFeature>
  <IntroFeature icon="platform" title="AI-native translation platform">Review and edit translations with your team. Add context so product names, key terms, and style stay consistent across every language.</IntroFeature>
  <IntroFeature icon="locadex" title="Locadex agent">Automate the full process with our purpose-built agent, which internationalizes your code and translates your content continuously. Just merge a pull request.</IntroFeature>
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GT understands your codebase, product, and context. So translations read like they were written by a native speaker and ship as fast as you do.

*General Translation is trusted by the world's best developer teams, including at Cursor, Ramp, Profound, Cognition, Sierra, and ClickHouse.*

## FAQs [#faqs]

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  <Accordion title="What is the difference between internationalization, localization, and translation?">
    Internationalization prepares your codebase to support multiple languages, translation converts content from one language into another, and localization is the whole process of adapting a product for a locale. See [Key concepts](/docs/overview/key-concepts).
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  <Accordion title="Do I have to use the platform to use the libraries?">
    No. The General Translation i18n libraries are free, open-source, MIT-licensed, and can be configured to load translations from any source. See [React quickstart](/docs/react/react-quickstart).
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  <Accordion title="Which library should I use?">
    Use `gt-react` for React apps and `gt-next` for Next.js. Use the [Node](/docs/node/quickstart) or [Python](/docs/python/quickstart) libraries for backend services, and the [Core library](/docs/platform/core/quickstart) for lower-level control in any JavaScript runtime.
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  <Accordion title="How do AI agents fit in?">
    Locadex automates localization for you, and you can also give your own AI coding tools access to the docs. See [For coding agents](/docs/overview/for-coding-agents).
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  <Accordion title="What is a locale?">
    A locale is a language or dialect, identified by a locale code such as `en-US`. See [Key concepts](/docs/overview/key-concepts#locales) and the [Supported locales](/docs/platform/dashboard/reference/supported-locales) list.
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