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Microsoft Open Sources the GitHub Copilot Chat Extension
At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced plans to open source over the next few months the code behind the GitHub Copilot Chat extension under the MIT license and refactor core AI capabilities directly into the main VS Code codebase. The move, if completed, may affect the ability of current for-pay AI code editors to compete purely on features.
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TanStack Releases TanStack Form V1
TanStack has released the first stable version of TanStack Form, a cross-framework form library with support for React, Vue, Angular, Solid, and Lit. This new addition to the TanStack ecosystem joins the existing lineup of popular form libraries, such as Formik, React Hook Forms or Final Form.
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Microsoft Announces Native TypeScript Compiler Port for 10X Performance Boost
Microsoft’s TypeScript team has announced an experimental native port of the TypeScript compiler (tsc), dubbed tsc-go, aimed at providing 10x improvement on build time, drastically reducing cold editor startup times, and substantially improving memory usage. This initiative explores running the compiler (written in Go) without the Node.js runtime overhead.
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Microsoft Announced Edit, New Open-Source Command-Line Text Editor for Windows at Build 2025
At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced Edit, a new open-source command-line text editor, to be distributed in the future as part of Windows 11. Edit aims to provide a lightweight native, modern command-line editing experience similar to Nano and Vim.
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Microsoft CTO Details Successes, Challenges, and Commitment to Rust at Rust Nation UK
Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Azure, delved in a recent talk at Rust Nation UK into the factors driving Rust adoption, providing concrete examples of Rust usage in Microsoft products, and detailing ongoing efforts to accelerate the migration from C/C++ to Rust at Microsoft by leveraging generative AI.
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Cloudflare Enhances Developer Experience with Vite Plugin and React Router v7 Support
Introducing Cloudflare's Vite Plugin (v1.0), revolutionizing web app development on Cloudflare Workers! Seamlessly integrate the Workers runtime into the Vite build process, enhance productivity with official React Router v7 support, and streamline deployment workflows. Experience faster builds, efficient hot module replacement, and robust ecosystem support for modern frameworks.
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JBang Jash Brings Streamlined Process Execution to Java
The JBang team has introduced JBang Jash, a Java library designed to simplify the execution of external processes and shell commands through a fluent and predictable API, aiming to addresses the common complexities and boilerplate developers face when using standard Java APIs like java.lang.ProcessBuilder and Runtime.exec for these tasks.
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LittleHorse, a Java Workflow Engine for Distributed Systems Orchestration
LittleHorse is a Java open-source platform designed to orchestrate distributed systems, addressing the challenges related to state management and the coordination of microservices, external APIs, and human tasks. It allows developers to define workflows programmatically using languages such as Java, Go, Python, C#/.NET, eliminating the need for specialized DSLs.
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Bun 1.2 Improves Node Compatibility and Adds Postgres Client
The Bun team recently released Bun v1.2, with major progress regarding compatibility with Node.js, a key component of Bun’s value proposition. Bun 1.2 also now has a built-in S3 object storage API and a built-in Postgres client that comes in addition to the existing built-in SQLite client.
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Interop 2025: Anchor Positioning, View Transitions, Storage Access Soon Stable across Browsers
The features of Interop 2025 are now known. The list, whose items are to be made implemented and stable across browsers by the end of the year, includes anchor positioning, the View Transitions API, the Storage Access API, and more for a total of 19 focus areas.
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How Airbnb Used LLMs to Accelerate Test Migration
Thanks to the right mix of workflow automation and large language models, Airbnb significantly accelerated the process of updating their codebase to adopt React Testing Library (RTL) and converted nearly 3.5K React test files originally using Enzyme.
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ESLint Now Officially Supports CSS, JSON, and Markdown
Following up on plans to turn ESLint into a general-purpose linter, the ESLint team recently announced official support for the CSS language. The support comes in addition to recently added support for JSON and Markdown linting.
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Inertia 2.0 Released, Now Supports Asynchronous Requests
The Inertia team recently released Inertia 2.0. New features include asynchronous requests, deferred props, prefetching, and polling. Asynchronous requests enable concurrency, lazy loading, and more.
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The Future of Htmx - Stability and Compatibility
The htmx team recently released an essay addressing the future of htmx. htmx wants to be a low-cost, high-value addition to the toolkits of web developers with a focus on stability and backward compatibility. Going forward, htmx will be developed with its existing users in mind. Websites built with htmx should be working for many years without changes.
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Node.js 23.6 Now Runs TypeScript Natively
The Node team recently announced shipping TypeScript native support in Node 23.6. Node developers can now run TypeScript files without any extra configuration or flags. The feature, which was experimental in Node 22.6, is now stable. Native TypeScript support was among the most requested Node features by developers.