3+ week, 3+ min ago  (579+ words) Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is moving to a weekly release cycle, as well as joining Google in encouraging agentic AI development without manual approval with a new Autopilot feature. VS Code has always had a rapid release cycle,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (335+ words) Developer tools company JetBrains is discontinuing its Fleet IDE, which was introduced in 2021 but never made it out of public preview. The company is focusing instead on a new agentic development environment called Air. The intention at the time was…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (390+ words) The npmx package browser for the npm registry has been released in alpha, following a groundswell of support for this alternative to the official npmjs browser. The open source project was started by Daniel Roe, who leads the Nuxt project…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (637+ words) Microsoft execs Mark Russinovich, CTO Microsoft Azure, and Scott Hanselman, VP developer community, have written a paper for ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) in which they argue that senior software engineers must become mentors to juniors, to avoid a future…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (418+ words) Devographics has published its State of React survey, sponsored by companies including Google, JetBrains and Algolia, with over 3,700 developers speaking out about what they love and hate in the fractured React ecosystem. React, originally sponsored by Meta, is a JavaScript…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (316+ words) agentic workflows hit beta, enabling "new categories of repository automation" Agentic workflows - where an AI agent runs automatically in GitHub Actions - are now in technical preview, following their introduction at the Universe event in San Francisco last year. "This type…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (485+ words) R'mi Verschelde, a maintainer of the open source Godot game engine, is the latest to complain about the impact of "AI slop PRs [pull requests]", which he said"are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for Godot maintainers." A comment noted…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (620+ words) Anthropic has updated Claude Code, its AI coding tool, changing the progress output to hide the names of files the tool was reading, writing or editing; but developers have pushed back stating that they need to see which files are…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (550+ words) 25 years after the Agile Manifesto, a group of experts hosted by one its signatories met to consider the impact of AI on software development, concluding among other things that test-driven development has never been more important. "Test-driven development (TDD) produces…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (363+ words) Microsoft has deprecated Polyglot Notebooks, an extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) which supports multiple languages in one Jupyter Notebook, including C#. It was the main use for .NET Interactive, a project whose future must now also be in…...