GitHub readies agents to automate repository maintenance

GitHub is readying a new feature to automate some of the most expensive work in DevOps: the invisible housekeeping no one wants to own. Developers would rather be building features than debugging flaky continuous integration (CI) pipelines, triaging low-quality issues, updating outdated documentation, or closing persistent gaps in test coverage. In order to help developers…

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Microsoft’s .NET 11 Preview 2 offers cleaner stack traces

Microsoft has published Preview 2 of its planned .NET 11 software development platform, emphasizing progress ranging from native runtime async to smaller SDK installers for Linux and macOS. Released March 10, .NET 11 Preview 2 can be downloaded from net.microsoft.com. Preview 2 follows the February 10 release of Preview 1, with the production release expected…

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JetBrains launches Air and Junie CLI for AI-assisted development

JetBrains has introduced two new tools for AI-assisted software development: Air, an environment for delegating coding tasks to multiple AI agents and running them concurrently, and Junie CLI, an LLM-agnostic coding agent. Both were announced on March 9. Air, in public preview, can be downloaded from air.dev, while Junie CLI, in beta, is accessible at…

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Python is slipping in popularity – Tiobe

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has declined over the past six months, from a high market share of 26.98% last July to 21.81% in this month’s Tiobe index. The shift, Tiobe…

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