Developer Tools

Microsoft Build 2026: Reshaping the Developer Experience Microsoft’s Build 2026 developer conference concluded with seven major announcements spanning AI assistant upgrades, new development tools, and cloud service integrations. The flagship release was a comprehensive upgrade to Copilot, Microsoft’s AI coding assistant, now featuring enhanced code generation and deeper integration with Visual Studio and GitHub. The conference underscored Microsoft’s strategic vision of “AI empowering developers” rather than “AI replacing developers.” This philosophy runs through all announced products and features, positioning AI as a collaborative partner in the development workflow. ...

The popular text editor Notepad++ has launched a native macOS version but original creator Don Ho has publicly disavowed the release, sparking debate in the developer community about its legitimacy.

GitHub reports that VS Code has a bug where the editor automatically adds ‘Co-Authored-by: Copilot’ to git commits even when users haven’t used Copilot, sparking significant debate in the developer community.