Yeah, I know, it sounds kinda obvious. Read on. That seemingly obvious statement is not actually what I mean.

I'm not talking about a specific programming language. I'm talking about coding as a practice in general. We're used to understanding common languages, from informal ones (like human languages such as English or Spanish), to more formal or restrictive ones (like math).

But all in all, a language is anything you can use to express ideas with. In that sense art is also a language: for a musician music would be his/her language, painting, and so on. For expert chess players, the rules of chess would constitute a language.