CodeSpeak
Shares rank 121 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
Recommended as a formal version of agentic engineering that might get people to keep specs, though critics raised scattered doubts about closed source and output quality.
Recommended as a formal version of agentic engineering that might get people to keep specs, though critics raised scattered doubts about closed source and output quality.
17 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 10
- approval share
- 41%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Helpful, fits existing work
“this is really exciting and dovetails really closely with the project I'm working on”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English” “Seems very helpful, actually.”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English” Seen as a programming language
“This is why I often refer to CodeSpeak as a next-level programming language.”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English” “Cool idea overall, an incremental psuedocode compiler.”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English” Important direction, done right
“I think it's an important direction in software engineering.”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English” “I think you guys are doing pretty much everything right.”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English”
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See all 163 programming languages, rankedWhat people said
16 of the 18 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Their example code output produced code with path traversal/resource exhaustion risks and correctness issues”
“Formalised version of the agentic engineering many are already doing, but might actually get people to store their specs”
“Cool idea overall, an incremental psuedocode compiler.”
“I think you guys are doing pretty much everything right.”
“This is why I often refer to CodeSpeak as a next-level programming language.”
“something like "code generation tool" better describes CodeSpeak IMHO”
“which seems to suggest that the authors themselves don't dogfood their own software”
“I think it's an important direction in software engineering.”
“It also seems to be closed-source, which means that unless they open the source very soon”
“Seems very helpful, actually.”
“this is really exciting and dovetails really closely with the project I'm working on”
“The limitation seems to be that you can't modify the code yourself if you want the spec to reflect it”
“I'm sure that this time the language will be simple and English-like enough that execs can use it directly”
“it looks AI generated and misses key background knowledge”
“whatever codespeak offers is like a weird VCS wrapper around this”
“English is really too verbose and imprecise for coding, so we developed a programming language you can use instead.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.