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AI (Taking over!?), Javascript runtimes, Angular, and more. This week in web dev (March 15th, 2024) #43

Hello friend đź‘‹ It has been an exciting week in the web dev world. Big announcements in the AI world have people worried, but should they be? A new Javascript runtime has been released, and much more!

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March 15th, 2024

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Cognition Labs, an AI company that came out of nowhere, just showed off their “AI software engineer”.

Some people are skeptical about its capabilities, while others are scared that it will replace them in their jobs. While I cannot see into the future and tell you where software jobs are heading, I can tell you one thing, the technology is very impressive!

The AI has access to a browser, command prompt, code editor, and more. The AI will automatically read docs if it doesn’t know what to do.

Another week, another Javascript runtime. This time the runtime is called “Winter JS”, and is supposedly very fast.

This blazing-fast runtime can handle up to 100,000 requests per second on a single laptop. It runs Service Worker scripts adhering to the WinterCG spec, powered by SpiderMonkey and Spiderfire under the hood.

Tanner Linsley and the rest of the geniuses at Tanstack just released their experimental version of Tanstack Query for Angular.

This means you will be able to use the opinionated fetching library in your Angular projects, and you will be free from fixing together your own solution.

The library is currently experimental, which means breaking changes will probably be included in minor and major patches.

The past week has been “Launch week” for Prisma, and therefore big additions have been made to the Prisma ORM.

Pulse is a “managed database-event infrastructure that simplifies database-event driven compute, making it easy to power real-time functionality, like chat, notifications, data broadcast, and more.”

Other additions include platform environments, and edge functions in the preview.

A new DB has been released, and as you might be able to guess from the name, it is exclusively designed for the Astro framework.

Powered by SQL and a Typescript ORM, you can create all the cool projects you want!