The cure for the AI hype hangover

The enterprise world is awash in hope and hype for artificial intelligence. Promises of new lines of business and breakthroughs in productivity and efficiency have made AI the latest must-have technology across every business sector. Despite exuberant headlines and...

Last JavaScript-based TypeScript arrives in beta

Microsoft has released a beta of TypeScript 6.0, an update to the company’s strongly typed JavaScript variant that promises to be the last release based on the current JavaScript codebase. TypeScript 7.0 will debut a compiler and language service written in Go for...

Visual Studio adds GitHub Copilot unit testing for C#

Microsoft has made GitHub Copilot testing for .NET, a new capability in GitHub Copilot Chat that automates the testing of C# code, generally available in the just-released Visual Studio 2026 v18.3 IDE. Microsoft announced the capability on February 11. GitHub Copilot...

Go 1.26 unleashes performance-boosting Green Tea GC

Go 1.26 has been released. The latest version of the Google-built programming language enables the higher performing Green Tea garbage collector (GC) by default. It also introduces a change to generic types that simplifies the implementation of complex data...