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The Pragmatic Engineer

The Pragmatic Engineer

The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin

Feb 12, 2026 · 1h 44m

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Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Andrey Breslav is the creator of Kotlin and the founder of CodeSpeak , a new programming language that aims to reduce boilerplate by replacing trivial code with concise, plain-English descriptions. He led Kotlin’s design at JetBrains through its early releases, shaping both the language and its compiler as Kotlin grew into a core part of the Android ecosystem. In this episode, we talk about what it takes to design and evolve a programming…