TypeScript Ported to Go for 10x Gains, Azure AI Foundry Goes Agentic, More

March 20, 2025

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Microsoft Ports TypeScript to Go for 10x Native Performance Gains

Microsoft is revamping its TypeScript programming language with a native compiler and toolset. This effort seeks to address performance challenges, especially in large codebases, by porting the existing TypeScript compiler from TypeScript/JavaScript to the native language, Go.

■	TypeScript 5.8 Improves Type Checking, Conditional Feature Delayed to 5.9
■	C# Dev Kit Previews .NET Aspire Orchestration
■	TypeScript 5.8 Beta Speeds Program Loads, Updates
■	TypeScript Tops New JetBrains 'Language Promise Index'

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Azure AI Foundry Gets 'Computer-Using Agent' for Autonomous GUI Interaction

Microsoft is expanding functionality for agentic AI into its Azure AI Foundry platform, furthering one of the hottest areas of development right now where AI controls computers just like humans.

■	Building Generative AI Applications with Azure AI Foundry
■	Copilot Engineering in the Cloud with Azure and GitHub
■	Microsoft's Open-Source Semantic Kernel AI Toolkit Extends to AWS Cloud
■	Unlocking Deeper Insights: Expert Advice on Azure Monitoring

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Microsoft Previews GPT-4o Copilot Code Completion and .NET AI Template in Visual Studio

Things are happening quickly in the Microsoft-centric AI dev space, with the company previewing new AI features in Visual Studio 2022 ranging from a new .NET AI template to GPT-4o Copilot Code Completion.

■	How to Unlock Visual Studio 2022's Preview Features Like Claude Sonnet 3.7 AI Model
■	Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Ships: 'Meet GitHub Copilot Free'
■	Visual Studio Copilot Improves Feature Search, Shortcuts, Slash Commands
■	IDE Irony: Coding Errors Cause 'Critical' Vulnerability in Visual Studio

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New VS Code Release Polishes Experimental GitHub Copilot Agent Mode

Continuing the journey from "AI pair programmer" to "autonomous peer programmer" to, eventually, just "AI programmer," no human coding needed, just supervision.

■	Hands On: New VS Code Insiders Build Creates Web Page from Image in Seconds
■	VS Code Copilot Previews New GPT-4o AI Code Completion Model
■	VS Code Copilot Gets Closer to Tab, Tab, Tab Coding
■	GitHub Previews Agentic AI in VS Code Copilot

Microsoft Introduces Majorana 1: A Quantum Computing Chip for Scalable Development

Microsoft has unveiled its first quantum computing chip, Majorana 1, designed to accelerate quantum computing development and deployment in datacenters. This milestone marks a step toward making quantum computing more reliable and accessible for software developers working on next-generation applications.

■	Semantic Kernel Agent Framework Graduates to Release Candidate
■	Xcode IDE from Microsoft Archrival Apple Gets Copilot AI
■	Microsoft Previews Copilot AI for Open-Source Eclipse IDE
■	AI Toolkit for VS Code Now Lets You 'Bring Your Own Model'

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TypeScript Ported to Go for 10x Gains, Azure AI Foundry Goes Agentic, More

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