Amazon Q Developer Now Lets You Code in Hindi

In a recent blog post, Brian Beach announced that Amazon has expanded language support through Amazon Q Developer, allowing developers to communicate technical ideas and generate documentation in multiple languages, including Hindi.

“The natural flow of conversation in any language helps maintain the developer’s focus and flow, eliminating the mental overhead of constant translation,” added Beach.

With the latest update, Amazon Q Developer now supports languages such as Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, French, Korean, and Portuguese, allowing for more fluid and natural conversations in multiple development environments.

The upgrade enhances the tool’s usability for tasks like architecture design, documentation creation, interface building, and application planning.

From inline chat and suggestions in IDEs to command line interface (CLI) interactions, the expanded language support means developers can stay in the zone without the cognitive burden of translation.

The tool not only answers questions in the user’s language but suggests follow-up prompts and refinements, preserving context and improving efficiency. 

There has been a recent trend amongst companies to allow developers to give prompts in their native language.

At the Microsoft AI Tour in Bengaluru, GitHub also showcased Copilot Workspace’s ability to write code from natural-language queries, including support for Indian languages like Hindi and Kannada.

Karan MV, director of international developer relations at GitHub, demonstrated that Copilot’s Workspace can understand Indian languages, including Hindi and Kannada, while writing code. 

The feature was introduced in May last year. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said, “Think about this – every person can now start programming, whether it’s in Hindi, Brazilian, or Portuguese, and bring back the joy of coding in their native language.”

The discussion about English being the hottest programming language is slowly shifting to coding in every language. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a podcast with Lex Fridman about the future of coding that it’ll be in a very different shape. 

Altman said that many have already started programming entirely in natural language. “No one programs by writing code…some people do. No one programs the pun cards anymore,” he quipped, adding that it would change the nature and the skillset, not so much the predisposition for who we call programmers in the future.