[lokhura]

>Generally it’s possible to do that in English much more tersely than it is in code.

I really doubt this is the case for any decent amount of complexity. English is ambiguous. Programming languages exist because we don't want this ambiguity from natural languages. A sufficiently descriptive spec written in English is barely indistinguishable from just code. We've come full circle.

[bartread]

It’s the case because English is wildly more expressive than many commonly used programming languages.

And especially when you take into account the mess of front end web development and tooling.

[MarsIronPI]

Paul Graham might say if that's the case then you need a more expressive language.