Real-Time Collaboration Comes to Atom

At QCon San Francisco 2017, GitHub’s Nathan Sobo has unveiled Atom’s new real-time collaboration plugin, Teletype. Teletype aims to make it possible for two developers to code together with the same ease as coding alone.

GitHub Team Discussions Aim to Improve Collaboration

Announced at its last Universe conference, Team discussions aim to power processes like planning, analysis, design, and others directly from within GitHub.

Rust 1.22 Extends the ? Operator to Option Types

The latest release of Rust stabilizes the usage of ? with Option to simplify option handling. Additionally, it improves compiler performance and backtraces on macOS.

The Hottest Tech Trends in 2018 According to GitHub

Data, workflow integration, and open source tools are among the trends that Jason Warner, GitHub senior vice-president of technology, identifies as key for company success in 2018.

Clojure 1.9 Brings Spec and More Language Features

As InfoQ previously reported, the most interesting new feature in the recently released Clojure 1.9 is Spec, which provides a standard and integrated system for the specification and testing of data and functions.