DevToolsDigest: Issue #339
This week's digest includes news and resources from Red Hat, LinearB, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
VS Code: Open Source AI Editor
For the last decade, VS Code has been one of the most successful OSS projects on GitHub. The team is open sourcing the code in the GitHub Copilot Chat extension under the MIT license, then carefully refactoring the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.
Red Hat Launches the llm-d Community
By tapping the innovation of vLLM and the proven capabilities of Kubernetes, llm-d paves the way for distributed, scalable and high-performing AI inference across the expanded hybrid cloud, supporting any model, any accelerator, on any cloud environment and helping realize a vision of limitless AI potential.
Industry Research
The Internet Could Be So Much Better
Most people think of browsers as just one computer application of many. Yet, over the past ten years, applications that once lived on our devices have all moved to the browser. Browsers are now the universal portal to our digital lives. Yet, its architecture was not designed for the internet we use today.
2025 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report
The 2025 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report is created from an analysis of 6+ million pull requests from 3,000+ organizations worldwide. Explore how software development has changed over the past year while also gaining strategic insights into the metrics and processes that are driving productivity improvement.
Developers: Is Training Taking a Back Seat?
Between the explosion of AI and flood of open source vulnerabilities, you'd think staying sharp with the latest cybersecurity skills would be priority number one for dev teams. Snyk's 2024 State of Open Source Security Report just dropped and it shows companies are cutting back on investing in essential security tools and training.
Developer Venture News
Apple's Famed Design Leader Jony Ive Joins OpenAI
The transaction is a major signal that OpenAI is moving aggressively beyond software and into the business of building physical devices powered by AI. OpenAI now has a dedicated hardware division, positioning it to create consumer-facing AI-native devices that could redefine how people interact with technology.