Amazon Q Developer Expands Language Support, Enhancing Global Accessibility for Coders

Lost in translation? Amazon Q Developer now speaks more languages

The coding assistant update expands accessibility for developers globally. Programming is an increasingly global profession, and developer tools are finally catching up. On Wednesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new language supports in Q Developer, its coding assistant, to better serve its global user base. Amazon says the assistant can now deliver feedback accurately in multiple languages, creating a familiar work environment for developers of all backgrounds. For much of its history, software has been rooted in English -- a reality that gives primarily Western, English-speaking developers an upper hand. To address this, companies behind consumer AI tools have begun to roll out regional and language-specific products to improve usage amongst non-English-speaking communities. Some tools even change accents in real-time. Also: The best AI for coding in 2025 (and what not to use) While the code itself still functions in English, Amazon Q Developer's adjustment aims to expand accessibility for the surrounding parts of a developer's workflow. "By expanding language support, Amazon Q Developer now enables developers to have more natural, fluid conversations about complex technical concepts in their preferred language, whether they're designing system architecture, generating documentation, or planning application localization strategies," AWS architect Brian Beach wrote in the announcement. To demonstrate, Beach asked Q Developer the same question in English, Chinese, Hindi, and Spanish. The assistant responded in all four languages and maintained "technical accuracy while adapting to linguistic nuances," Beach said. Q Developer also keeps follow-up questions and responses in the user's selected language, removing the barrier of constant back-and-forth translation from their workflow. Beach also showed how he could ask Q Developer to add comments to his code in French. Also: The AI model race has suddenly gotten a lot closer, say Stanford scholars Expanded language support is available now for Free and Pro users in the integrated development environment (IDE) and command line interface (CLI) and will soon be available in the AWS Management Console.

Amazon Q Developer Now Lets You Code in Hindi

Supporting Hindi, Chinese and Spanish, developers can now work with native languages with ease. 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.

Amazon Q Developer coding assistant now speaks multiple languages for coders worldwide - SiliconANGLE

Amazon Q Developer coding assistant now speaks multiple languages for coders worldwide To expand the reach of the company's artificial intelligence software development assistant, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Web Service Inc. said today it's introducing support for multiple written languages. Although English is one of the most common languages to code with, not all developers are English speakers. Gaining the ability to have a development assistant that is integrated directly into coding tools speak the same language as a software engineer makes that tool even more powerful for collaboration. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant that helps software engineers generate, troubleshoot and document code. It can work inline while developers are coding in their favorite applications and it can also work alongside them like a helper that can describe how unknown code works and provide documentation for application programming interfaces, libraries and connectors. The tool now supports major languages such as Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, German, French and others in addition to English to enable diverse multilingual teams. Srini Iragavarapu, director of generative AI applications and developer experiences, told SiliconANGLE in an interview that this will help make development more inclusive, especially with so many teams being diverse and globally distributed. "Although I personally have learned everything in English, I have a lot of friends who speak other languages," Iragavarapu said. "In fact, just last week I was in Germany and in the Netherlands to meet the team there. While they talk in a group they talk in English, but when they break into small cohorts they do speak in their native language." According to Amazon, Q Developer's new multilingual capability can give complete responses in multiple languages and maintain its technical accuracy. Putting code and documentation in the native language of the developer, eliminates the mental overhead of constantly translating, Amazon said. Expanded language support is now available for integrated development environments, which are applications that help programmers develop, debug, compile and deploy code. It's also available for command line interfaces with support for the AWS Management Console coming soon. When using an editor, developers will be able to use inline chat to ask Q Developer to add comments to the code in their native language. Q Developer will also suggest follow-up questions in the user's chosen language in chat, allowing them a more intuitive experience when describing code refactoring or asking what a piece of code does. That will also be useful for users who need to understand comments or code written in other languages, for example. A developer could pick up code with comments not written in a language not native to their own and ask Q to explain how the code works and it will explain it in their own language. Iragavarapu said this will break down language barriers, making coding a truly global experience. "This is one of those areas that we've gotten a lot of feedback, especially because of the diversity of the personas that we have in the developer ecosystem," said Iragavarapu. "There are other areas too that we are constantly evolving and working on, but being able to talk to developer agents and the generative AI assistant here in this case in non-English is one of the most requested features."