GitHub Copilot Workspace to Make Developers’ Lives Less Miserable [Video]

GitHub’s tenth edition of its flagship developer conference, GitHub Universe 24, introduced several new feature additions to the GitHub Copilot Workspace—a collaborative environment within GitHub that helps developers use natural language to generate a structured plan based on the specifications of an issue, and seamlessly create a pull request. Copilot Workspace also leverages generative AI capabilities to assist in coding, allowing teams to iterate on their code effectively, and make changes across all the files in a repository. 

GitHub revealed that over 55,000 developers have used Copilot Workspace to plan, build, test, and run code using natural language, with over 10,000 pull requests merged.

The Developer Environment of The Future

Over the last six months, GitHub has released over 100 new additions to the Copilot Workspace, repeatedly suggesting that it is the ‘developer environment of the future’. The newly announced build and error repair featuresuggests potential solutions to code errors and provides an option to fix the code manually or let Copilot Workspace …