How-To Geek on MSN

3 obscure Windows programming apps to try this weekend

KDE Advanced Text Editor, or Kate, is the text and code editor developed and maintained by the KDE Community. That is the ...
XDA Developers on MSN

VS Code is an open-source platform these days, not just a development tool

At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license. Microsoft maintains this repository publicly on GitHub, where anyone can clone, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

'F# Meets XAML' in Open Source Silverlight Alternative, OpenSilver 2.1

OpenSilver, an open source alternative to the long-gone Microsoft Silverlight, continues to add new language support to its XAML-based web application framework. After adding support for VB.NET (in ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Prompt Engineering? See VS Code Team's System Prompts for Copilot Chat, Now Open Source

"Now that the code is open source, what does it mean for you? Explore the codebase and learn how agent mode is implemented, what context is sent to LLMs, and how we engineer our prompts. Everything, ...
Wired

The Most Capable Open Source AI Model Yet Could Supercharge AI Agents

The most capable open source AI model with visual abilities yet could see more developers, researchers, and startups develop AI agents that can carry out useful chores on your computers for you.