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| Here's a look at today's Dev briefing. - JetBrains released the State of Developer Ecosystem 2023 report.
- Microsoft introduced Windows AI Studio at the Microsoft Ignite event.
- New Relic suffered a cyber security incident.
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| 1 | | The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023 report revealed that security concerns topped the reasons for developers' lack of trust in AI tools. JetBrains surveyed over 26,000 developers from around the globe to prepare the report. More: - Over half (59%) of respondents agreed they have security concerns about using GenAI tools, and 42% cited ethical concerns.
- Among generative AI tools, 77% of developers use ChatGPT, while less than half (46%) use GitHub Copilot.
- JavaScript continued to maintain its position as the most used programming language. However, its popularity has declined from 70% in 2020 to 61% in 2023.
- According to the survey, Apple's Objective-C language is nearing the end of its lifespan as its usage has dropped by two-thirds in the past six years.
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| 2 | | At the Microsoft Ignite event last week, Microsoft unveiled Windows AI Studio, a new offering aimed at helping developers with generative AI app development. Microsoft also announced new updates to Dev Home and new enterprise features to enhance security and simplify development in Windows Subsystem for Linux. More: - Windows AI Studio consolidates advanced AI development tools and models from Azure AI Studio and other catalogs such as Hugging Face, enabling developers to customize and deploy small language models in Windows apps.
- The platform offers an end-to-end guided workspace setup with model configuration UI and guided walkthroughs for popular SLMs, and supports Hybrid Loop development patterns.
- Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) includes new enterprise features such as a new Windows Defender for Endpoint plugin, the ability to control access to WSL and its security settings through Intune, and advanced networking controls.
- Further, Microsoft released Dev Home v0.7 with support for Azure DevOps (ADO) through the new Dev Home Azure extension, allowing the cloning of Azure repositories, managing ADO projects, and boosting productivity from the Windows desktop.
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| 3 | | In a security bulletin, New Relic revealed that it suffered a cybersecurity incident recently. The application performance monitoring platform did not disclose any further details about the nature of the incident. More: - New Relic said it is investigating the incident with the support of third-party cybersecurity experts.
- It added that customers would be contacted directly if they are required to perform any specific actions and that no action is necessary if customers do not hear from the company.
- New Relic went private in July following a $6.5B acquisition by private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG.
- In its 2023 APM Magic Quadrant, Gartner cautioned that New Relic was slow in incorporating native security monitoring and attack mitigation capabilities in its product.
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| 4 | | Coding automation tool maker Codegen raised a $16M seed round. The funding round was led by Thrive Capital with participation from a few angel investors. More: - Founder and CEO of Codegen, Jay Hack, told TechCrunch that Codegen eliminates costs from technical debt and maintenance for companies by automating mundane, repetitive software engineering tasks.
- He added that Codegen differs from GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, etc., by focusing on "codebase-wide" issues such as large migrations and refactoring and offering better automation in executing tasks.
- Codegen is currently incubating its platform with two large-scale enterprise partners and is yet to acquire paying customers.
- The San Francisco-based company intends to use the funding to scale its workforce and support its infrastructure.
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| 5 | | New Tools and Updates: - Microsoft released TypeScript 5.3 with import attributes to provide information about the expected format of a module to the runtime, stable support for resolution-mode attribute in all module modes, and more.
- In Firefox 120.0, Mozilla added the User Activation API, which allows JavaScript to check if a user is active with a page; a new Pretty Print button to the Style Editor panel; and enabled status code 103 for servers to send resource Link headers before the final HTTP response.
- The Qt Group unveiled Qt Creator 12 with new features, such as an Integrated Compiler Explorer, the ability to set breakpoints in a project's CMake files and CMake's configuration process through debugging via DAP, and record screen for bug reports, sharing, blog posts, etc.
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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 Vibha Chapparike | |
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