It will offer both inline support as well as an experimental chat experience that can recommend commands, explain errors and even take actions in the Terminal app itself. Harsh described it as adding orchestration to WinGet.Īs for the Windows Terminal, the GitHub Copilot integration will be available to users who subscribe to the service through GitHub. This should make it considerably easier to onboard new developers to a new project and ensure that they use the right versions of their tools and frameworks. To make it easier for developers to set up their machines, Microsoft now enables them to set up a WinGet configuration file to create unattended and repeatable configurations (WinGet is Microsoft’s command-line tool for managing and configuring Windows apps). And then, being able to improve the disk performance, especially for things like build times and working with package managers like Pip and NPM.” That’s a problem that’s existed as long as we’ve had visual installers - so kind of forever. The first one was that the pain of setting up an environment on Windows is a huge amount of toil. “In the last year, we’ve been listening to the community and seeing what’s the next set of things they really want us to do to improve the experience,” Michael Harsh, the group program manager for Microsoft’s Windows Platform team, told me. In part, this is driven by the arrival of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Microsoft says the number of developers who are using the platform increased by 24% last year. Essentially, this is the first time this file system is available for Windows client users, and thanks to cooperation with the Windows Defender team, Microsoft’s security tool can now scan these drives without blocking file operations.Īll of this is happening against the backdrop of Windows seeing quite a bit of growth among developers (and especially Python developers). Microsoft is also launching a new type of storage volume for Windows 11, Dev Drive, that is based on the same Resilient File System the company uses for Azure and that promises up to 30% performance improvements in build times. GitHub Copilot X, for example, is coming to the Windows Terminal and the company is also launching a new extensible open source Windows app (Dev Home) that allows users to quickly set up their machines, connect to their code repositories and add widgets to track their projects or monitor their local machine’s performance. And we’re talking about major updates here - all of which will come to the Windows Insider dev channel this week. This year, the company is taking a different approach: It is highlighting the work it is doing to improve the developer experience on Windows. While mostly a developer event, Build has long been where Microsoft puts a spotlight on consumer-centric updates to Windows.
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