English is becoming the world’s most popular programming language.
English might really be the most popular development language in 6 years – but that doesn’t mean we should all become “vibe coders.” It means the devs who win will treat natural language as a first-class interface to code and systems, and practice Prompt Driven Development as a serious engineering discipline, not a party trick. From code-centric to spec-centric We’re already halfway there: most of the dev lifecycle is in English (tickets, docs, PRs, Slack), and LLMs can now both understand that context and generate production-grade code from it. The big shift coming is spec-centric development, where your durable source of truth is the English (or natural language) spec, and implementations are continuously regenerated and improved as models and platforms evolve. In that world, “knowing” a language becomes less about memorizing syntax and more about clearly expressing intent, constraints, and edge cases in natural language. App developers in particular will spend more time design...