GH Copilot Workspace Review, the Latest in Web UI, and React Suspense Drama
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Todayās episode covers a slew of hot topics making headlines in the web development and general technology world. TJ kicks off the show with his firsthand experience of GitHub Copilot Workspace (available to users by invite only). He tested Copilot Workspace with a relatively simple issue in one of his repos, and while the plan Copilot came up with seemed sound, the implementation didnāt end up working. It took Copilot several minutes each time he asked it to try and code a working solution again too, which wasnāt the best experience. While itās still extremely early days for Copilot Workspace, it still has a ways to go before it will replace developers at this rate. The next topic is around a talk at Google I/O: the latest in web UI. In the talk, Google DevRel Lead, Una Kravets, highlights some of the best new features out like native scroll driven animations and view transitions, the introduction of the popover API and anchor positioning in CSS, and CSS container queries and nesting and layout, typography, and color improvements. Her talk is accompanied by slick visual demos and is definitely worth a watch. Next up is some new drama in the React world: the React team is solidly considering fundamentally changing the way Suspense works in React 19, and the general React public is not happy about it. Hopefully their concerns are heard before it gets finalized. And thereās a bit of bonus news as well: Appleās annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) unveiled āApple Intelligenceā, Appleās answer to AI, which will include Siri interfacing with Chat GPT 4o when it doesnāt know the answer, custom, AI-generated emojis, and the new Safari 18 beta version. Jack also recommends a cool CSS browser extension called Design GUI for managing colors in CSS variables.