JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language
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Abstraction: JetBrains developing English-like high-abstraction language for AI code generation
Key points:
- JetBrains CEO Kirill Skrygan announced an unnamed new language intended to describe programs at a higher level of abstraction than current languages
- The language would essentially be structured English — design docs with semantics — that AI agents and JetBrains tooling compile into platform-specific code
- Intended to make AI code generation more controllable, transparent, and useful, following abstraction levels from Assembler to C to Java and now higher
- A developer would write a specification for a cross-platform app (iOS, Android, web) once; AI generates all platform versions
- Being explored as a derivative of Kotlin; no timeline for general availability announced
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