Microsoft is introducing a unified Copilot experience in Visual Studio 17.10 that will combine the features of Copilot and Copilot Chat into one package. This version of Visual Studio is out in May.
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Microsoft has launched TypeScript 5.4 with quite a lot of new features which you can find out more about here. The company said the next version, TypeScript 5.5 will arrive in mid-June.
Nvidia, Hugging Face, and ServiceNow have released a new set of LLMs known as StarCoder2. Trained on 619 programming languages, it aims to help programmers writer and understand code efficiently.
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Apple has announced the Swift Student Challenge. It is a chance for budding software developers to enter their project for a chance to win some WWDC23 swag and possibly an invite to Apple Park.
The Godot Engine is now available to download through the Epic Games Store. This makes it easier for people to download the game engine and keep it up to date in the future as new versions come out.
For the first time since initial publication in 2017, Microsoft has updated its guidance for the .NET language strategy. There are no major changes but the idea is to make it more discoverable.
It's now possible to build The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past from source for Windows and other platforms. This effort opens up to possibility for more exotic ports as well, like Atari Jaguar.
Visual Studio 2022 users can now have up to ten Git repositories open at once. This helps when working on projects that are situated across several repositories. This feature was highly requested.
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Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2022 17.3 update. It brings several new features, including support for .NET MAUI, a Teams Toolkit, C++ improvements, and improved Live Unit Testing.
Challenged accepted. Of course, Basic was not up to the task for this one and Josip shows in detail how he managed writing Tiny Pong in C, which is a language that performs more closely to assembly.
Apple has released Swift Playgrounds 4.0. With this update, most of the new features have been made available to the iPad version rather than the one for macOS. Read on for a full changelog.
The move does not mean there is an effort to rewrite any existing kernel source in Rust, but if new kernel development trends in this direction, we could be looking at a wildly different codebase.
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6. The latest version of Visual Studio focuses on quality-of-life improvements with the AI-assisted code companion IntelliCode and Hot Reload.
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In a paper, researchers test the best language models (GPT-2/3/Neo) at solving programming questions from coding interviews. Results aren't particularly groundbreaking but show potential.
The Rust programming language has celebrated its sixth birthday since the launch of version 1.0 on May 15, 2015. The language has been a success to date as it has been adopted by well-known firms.
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Google has released a new curriculum that educators can leverage to teach their students how to write Android apps using Kotlin. Google recommends that instructors have some programming knowledge.
The Rust Foundation has been established to act as the steward for the increasingly popular programming language Rust. Its backers include AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla.
Raspberry Pi has announced the launch of a new microcontroller called Pico. It's powered by the RP2040 chip that Raspberry designed and built themselves. A free Pico is available with HackSpace #39.
Trained on over 1-billion unlabeled lines of production-quality code, ControlFlag is a machine programming system that detects coding patterns, stylistic choices, and notorious code.
The TIOBE Index has put Python as the second most popular programming language, replacing Java. It's the first time in nearly 20 years that the TIOBE Index is not reporting C and Java in the top two.
With Amazon Honeycode, users can build web and mobile applications that are tailored specifically for tasks that involve tracking data over time and notifying users of changes - without any code.
Fermat's Library has annotated the subroutine to approximate transcendental functions that was initially written by Margaret Hamilton in assembly language for the Apollo 11 mission back in 1969.
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The new video series will focus on the fundamentals of Python, and is hosted by Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, Christopher Harrison, alongside Susan Ibach, who works at AI Gaming.
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