Hands-on with Zed: The IDE built for AI

Text editors and IDEs tend to inspire devotion from their users. Vim and Emacs have long-standing power-user bases. Visual Studio Code, despite being far newer, has exploded in popularity thanks to its cross-platform support and overall flexibility. Any new editor,...

A developer’s guide to avoiding the brambles

Software development is fraught with peril. For any development task, there are a million ways to do it wrong, and the one correct way is a small, narrow trail that winds quietly through the forest. It takes experience to know the path and to avoid the dangerous...

C# 14 touted for extension properties declaration

Although the C# 14 language was formally launched along with the .NET 10  framework a week ago, Microsoft has put the language update in view again. C# 14 features extension members, a new syntax for declaring extension properties and extension methods. Overall, C#...