VS Code update treats Copilot as "out-of-the-box" feature

Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to version 1.97, in which the company said that GitHub Copilot is…

Stack Exchange dabbles with AI answers – despite Stack Overflow banning them in 2022

Stack Exchange is experimenting with AI-generated answers, despite a ban on using AI-generated content on Stack Overflow, the section of…

Rust-powered Zed editor plans Vim mode improvements

Zed, an editor written from scratch in Rust, is getting enhanced Vim compatibility during 2025 with the hope of attracting…

JetBrains debuts agentic AI coding with 'Junie', but reviews for existing AI Assistant are poor

JetBrains has introduced a new AI coding agent called Junie, now in private preview for Mac and Linux only, a…

Tailwind CSS 4.0 released with 'ground-up rewrite' for faster Rust-powered build

Tailwind CSS 4.0 is out, promising up to 5x faster build times, or 100x for incremental builds, as well as…

How should development environments be standardized? Coder report highlights wide variations

A new survey of 550 enterprise developers shows there's a wide variation in the extent to which development environments are…

Java 24 feature frozen as it enters Rampdown Phase Two

Oracle’s Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of the Java Platform, has declared JDK 24 to be in Rampdown Phase Two, which…

Bun update brings Chrome debugging and controversial S3 API, PostgreSQL client coming soon

Version 1.1.3 of Bun, a toolkit and bundler for JavaScript and TypeScript applications, is out. And while it has new…

Another open source project shifts to restrictive license: Fluent Assertions following Xceed partnership

Fluent Assertions, formerly an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license, now requires a paid license for commercial use.…