Andrey Breslav
Programming language designer and creator of Kotlin who led Kotlin's design at JetBrains and is now building CodeSpeak, a language for AI-assisted development.
Best podcasts with Andrey Breslav
Ranked by the Snipd community
404 snips
Feb 12, 2026 • 1h 44min
The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin
Andrey Breslav, creator of Kotlin and now building CodeSpeak to combine plain-English intent with code. He discusses why Kotlin prioritized Java interoperability and null safety, the tradeoffs in designing a pragmatic JVM language, and how new languages can leverage LLMs to reduce boilerplate while keeping humans in control.
