[justwalt]

It's a common theme in posts from ESL programmers that they learned English as they needed while learning to program. I can't help but think that removing that necessity would allow more people who don't speak English to learn to code. It's hard for me to see that as a bad thing.

[AlchemistCamp]

It is? I've lived most my adult life in non-English-speaking countries and have seen the opposite—that programmers are less likely to be able to speak English well than people in less technical professions.

This is probably because many of them studied CS and spent comparatively more time with computers and less time consuming foreign language materials as students.