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Why I Built a Programming Language You Can Code in Arabic, Japanese, or Spanish
March 6, 2026•By Yousef
What if a programmer in Cairo didn't have to think in English to write code? What if someone in Tokyo could use `関数` instead of `fn`, or someone in Riyadh could write `متغير` instead of `let`, with zero performance cost? That question is what led me to build Seen, a systems programming language with Vale-style region-based memory safety, Kotlin-inspired syntax, and native multilingual keyword support. It ships with English, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Chinese out of the box, with more languages coming. But the question came later. The story starts with a game.Read more →Let's Build SomethingHave a project in mind? Drop me a message or book a call.