Today, GitHub announced that the tool is now available for personal use in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, and provides a public beta version for GitHub Copilot individual users.

According to reports, the GitHub Copilot Chat beta version has been enabled for all Copilot individual users for free. GitHub Copilot Chat is currently supported in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code editors, and individual users will receive an email notification with guidance on next steps.

Here are some features of GitHub Copilot Chat:

 Live guidance: GitHub Copilot Chat can suggest best practices, tips, and solutions tailored to specific coding challenges. Developers can use GitHub Copilot Chat to quickly learn a new language or improve their skills.

 Code Analysis: With GitHub Copilot Chat, developers can break down complex concepts and get explanations of code snippets.

 Resolve security issues: GitHub Copilot Chat can suggest fixes and help reduce the number of vulnerabilities discovered during security scans.

 Simple troubleshooting: When debugging code, GitHub Copilot Chat not only identifies issues but also provides suggestions, explanations, and workarounds.

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The reference to realityOS has been in Apple’s code for months, and a trademark has even been filed for it. The name appears to be a reference to the operating system that will be used for Apple’s VR devices.

Tipster Nick Chan has found other references to realityOS, this time in Apple’s open-source GitHub repository. Apple’s latest OSS content hides a lot of realityOS references.

As with previous realityOS leaks, this seems to confirm that Apple is working on a new autonomous operating system with unique emulator tools.

Steve Moser of MacRumors shared that “PLATFORM_WOLF” is the codename for Apple’s realityOS. This code is also the latest addition.

A report in December 2022 suggested that Apple may have moved to call the operating system “xrOS”. But there is no evidence that the name has changed, or that the code and marketing terminology may be different.

Apple’s new AR/VR device is expected to be released during the WWDC23 developer conference in June and is expected to cost up to $3,000 (currently about RMB 20,640) and be launched in the first generation primarily for developers.

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Microsoft GitHub ushered in the first line of code commit in October 2007. Today, developers are no longer just people who build software for tech companies, but an increasingly diverse and global group that spend their free time tinkering with code, designs, and documentation, contributing to open source projects, conducting scientific research, and more.

According to GitHub officials, in 2015, nearly one-third of the developers on GitHub were from North America. Today, some of the fastest growing regions come from elsewhere, such as Southeast Asia, Africa and South America. In India alone, more than 10 million developers use GitHub to build software. In Brazil, more than 3 million new developers use GitHub.

GitHub officially announced that it had reached 73 million developers at the end of 2021, and now it has added 27 million new developers after more than a year.

GitHub said that with the increased responsibility, the platform is no longer just a website equipped with tools for developers, but needs to provide developers with everything they need to focus on doing their best work. As home to 100 million developers, GitHub will help more new developers enter the technology field, help people work together to build the next great thing, accelerate human progress, and solve problems we don’t yet understand.

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Version control systems are often used in software development, and Subversion and git are the two main version control systems, the former being a centralized version control system and the latter being a distributed version control system. Over time, git has become the dominant tool used by developers, while Subversion has fallen into decline.

GitHub officials say that when GitHub introduced Subversion support in 2010, the version control landscape was very different. Many customers were using centralized version control systems. subversion was 10 years old and complemented other centralized systems, while git was just coming into its own.

At the time, GitHub was not sure that distributed version control would eventually become mainstream, let alone that git would become the dominant version control system.

GitHub data shows that less than 0.02% of requests to the git backend come from Subversion, and only about 5,000 repositories receive one Subversion request per month.

So, as GitHub usage continues to grow and the number of Subversion requests drops dramatically, GitHub officials plan to focus their efforts entirely on git.

GitHub will discontinue support for Subversion entirely on GitHub.com. Subversion support will also be removed from GitHub Enterprise Server when it is released sometime in early 2024.

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In June, Microsoft GitHub announced that it would be discontinuing the Atom text editor and archiving all projects under the organization on December 15, 2022.

Recently, Atom released v1.63.0 and officially announced that this will be the last version of Atom, mainly for some small bug fixes.

The first version was launched in 2014 and currently supports macOS, Windows, and Linux operating systems, with support for plugins written by Node.js and a built-in Git version control system provided by GitHub.

However, with the acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft and the emergence and development of new cloud-based tools over the years, Atom community participation has declined significantly and GitHub has decided to discontinue the text editor and allow to use of tools like Microsoft Visual Studio Code instead.

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