Go 1.20 Improves Compiler Performance and Extends Coverage Support

The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.20, improves compiler performance, bringing it back in line with Go 1.17. Additionally, the language now supports conversion from slice to arrays and revises struct comparison.

AI-Based Code-Completion Tool Tabnine Now Offers Automatic Unit Test Generation

One of the pioneer in the field, Tabnine is a code completion assistant that uses generative AI to predict and suggest the next lines of code based on its surrounding context. Tabnine is now opening beta access to new capabilities aimed to generate unit tests.

Open-Source Package ngrok-go Aims to Make it Easier to Embed Ingress into Go Apps

Ngrok-go is an idiomatic Go package that enables Go applications to securely receive network requests through ngrok’s ingress-as-a-service platform as if they were listening on a local port.

Server-side Swift Gets Swift Certificates and Swift ASN.1 Packages

The Swift team has just released two new server-side packages that aim to provide developers a faster and safer implementation of X.509 certificates, including their underlying ASN.1 DER encoding/decoding mechanism.

Stack Overflow Sentiment Survey Aims to Identify Experimental and Proven Technologies

Stack Overflow has published its 2023 Emergent Tech Sentiment Survey, aiming to gauge how developers perceive utility and impact of a range of “buzz-worthy” technologies like quantum computing, nanotechnology, blockchain, and others, as well as other more established ones including cloud computing, machine learning, robotics, and more.