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GitHub just launched a new free tier for its Copilot coding assistant – but only for a select group of developers
GitHub has launched a new free tier of its Copilot AI coding assistant for developers using the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) developer environment. There are limitations, however, and the free offer is intended for occasional users rather than full-time developers, which currently pay $10 a month for access to the AI-powered tool. The offer includes 2,000 code completions and…
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Console Developers Should Offer Keyboard and Mouse Support for Every Game
Summary Many console games now support keyboard and mouse Most games have existing PC versions with KBM support Controller support in PC games shows KBM support is feasible in console games. Modern consoles all have USB ports, and they all technically support keyboards and mice, but just because the hardware is capable, doesn’t mean the software is. Yet, today there…
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Developers using these programming languages were the best paid in 2024
Software developers proficient in the Scala programming language are among the best remunerated in the industry, according to new survey data. JetBrains’ annual State of Developer Ecosystem report for 2024 spoke to 23,262 developers to gain an insight on the programming languages, tools, and technologies that have dominated their work over the last year. The report ranked the share of…
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Setapp survey reveals what Mac developers are thinking about right now – Computerworld
The most popular channel for Mac app sales outside of Apple’s store is, of course, via the developer’s own website — though when it comes to making those sales, the challenges remain much the same as before: app discovery, marking, and user acquisition. I’ll be interested to see how third-party app stores rise to the challenge of helping developers with…
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The open source community relies on a loyal army of committed developers – but their security practices are putting the whole ecosystem at risk
Insufficient security on individual developer accounts maintaining some of the most popular packages poses a significant threat to the open source community and beyond, according to a report from the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation Census is the third report of its kind looking into the widespread use of free and open source software (FOSS), aggregating data from over 12…
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GitHub says Copilot improves code quality – but are AI coding tools actually producing results for developers?
Software development has frequently been identified as an area ripe for improvement through generative AI adoption, but a recent study has challenged perceptions around how beneficial AI coding tools are for developers. The data science team at software development specialists Uplevel looked into the impact generative AI coding assistants are having on the efficiency and efficacy of developers. The investigation…
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AI tools aren’t helping developers save time on software testing – but small teams are reaping the rewards
AI is doing little to help developers with the most time-consuming and painful parts of their daily workflows, according to new research. In a survey commissioned by Rainforest, three-quarters of developers using open source frameworks for test automation said they were using AI to assist with test writing and/or maintenance, both of which are notoriously time-consuming tasks. However, the productivity…
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Want developers to build secure software? You need to ditch these two programming languages
The memory safety of programming languages has been a hot topic for a number of years in the development community. Popular, high-performance languages like C and C++ suffer from the same weakness, namely they are vulnerable to bugs associated with how they use memory, which threat actors can take advantage of. Common classes of memory safety vulnerabilities are buffer overflow,…
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Get the Skills Amazon Developers Use and Build Websites Like a Pro
TL;DR: Get the 2024 Front-End Developer Course Bundle for $39.99 and learn the skills used by top companies like Netflix and Amazon to build dynamic, responsive websites. Are you looking to level up your skills and get a job building websites like Netflix, Amazon, or Etsy? With the 2024 Front-End Developer Course Bundle, you can gain all the tools and…
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Python just brushed past JavaScript to become the most popular programming language on GitHub – and a key factor is that AI developers love it
Python has overtaken JavaScript to become the most popular programming language on GitHub, according to new figures released by the firm, largely thanks to the rise of machine learning and generative AI. The coding platform revealed that there are now 518 million projects on GitHub, up by a quarter year-on-year, with 5.2 billion contributions to projects over the course of…
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