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| Here's a look at today's Dev briefing. - GitLab included Duo Chat beta in its November product release.
- Microsoft released .NET 8.
- Android updated its Play Store policies to improve app quality.
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| 1 | | GitLab unveiled the beta of Duo Chat, a natural-language AI assistant, in its November product release. According to a recent GitLab survey, nearly two-thirds (64%) of DevSecOps teams currently use AI tools or plan to use them in the next two years. More: - Duo Chat provides developers with real-time guidance, insights, and suggestions to analyze code, understand and fix security issues, assist with merge requests, and more.
- Chief Product Officer at GitLab, David DeSanto, told TechCrunch that the company plans to move existing Duo capabilities into chat between the first beta and the GA versions.
- Further, GitLab will include the generally available version of Code Suggestions in its December product release.
- During the closed preview, the product team noted that experienced developers preferred using AI tools through Duo Chat over Code Suggestions.
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| 2 | | Microsoft announced the general availability of .NET 8, a long-term support version with performance, stability, and security improvements. .NET 8 includes the first preview of .NET Aspire, a new stack for building resilient, observable, and configurable cloud-native applications with .NET. More: - The Dynamic Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO), enabled by default, enhances app performance by up to 20% by optimizing code based on real-world usage.
- Support for the AVX-512 instruction set enables developers to perform parallel operations on 512-bit data vectors, allowing more efficient data processing in a shorter time frame.
- Microsoft claims that it is seeing an 18% improvement in the JSON API scenario, achieving nearly 1 million requests per second with ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs.
- .NET 8 simplifies the use of AI through enhancements to the System.Numerics library to improve compatibility with Generative AI workloads and access to various models via partnerships with Azure OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Search, Milvus, Qdrant, and Microsoft Teams.
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| 3 | | Android rolled out new policies and programs to enhance the overall app quality across the platform. The new policies seek to ensure users have access to experiences they enjoy, regardless of their device. More: - The verification requirements mandated for new Play Console developer accounts are now available for existing developers.
- Developers can choose their preferred timeline for completing the verification process in Play Console.
- Deadlines are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and Android urged developers to choose their preferred deadline by Feb. 29, 2024.
- Android now requires developers with new Play Console accounts to test their apps with at least 20 people for two weeks before applying for access to production.
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| 4 | | Herb Sutter, Convener of the ISO/IEC C++ Technical Committee, revealed that contracts and reflection will be a part of C++ 26. The announcement comes after last week's Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting in Kona, Hawaii. More: - Contracts, a language feature first adopted in the mid-1980s, allows class methods to define preconditions, postconditions, and valid states for class members.
- The proposal to include static reflection in C++ 26 was unanimously approved last week. Reflection is already supported in C# and Java but not in C++.
- Other features approved include dense linear algebra based on BLAS in the C++ Standard Library, a standard API for debugging support, SIMD parallelism, and safety proposals for C++.
- The previous meeting in June resulted in the adoption of 40 proposed changes for C++ 26.
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- According to Backslash, the highlight features and benefits include in-depth reachability analysis, native security analysis detection, toxic flow analysis, and automated vulnerability and threat modeling.
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- The Parallel Rustc Working Group added experimental support for parallel execution in the Rust compiler's front end to reduce compile times.
- Apple announced the finalists of the App Store Award.
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 | Analyst | | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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