129: The Era of Humans Writing Code is Over

jQuery is the JavaScript library that just won’t quit. 20 years after its inception the team released jQuery 4.0.0, and it brings some notable modernizations including removed support for IE 10, a migration to ES modules, and support for Trusted Types. 

Node.js creator Ryan Dahl declared earlier this week that “the era of humans writing code is over”, and considering how good AI coding agents have gotten lately, he’s probably not wrong. 

Cloudflare also announces it has acquired popular JavaScript framework Astro. Cloudflare has been a good steward to other OSS projects in the past, and this acquisition allows the Astro team to focus on making the framework even better.

Timestamps:

• 0:50 - jQuery 4.0
• 7:58 - Is the era of humans writing code over?
• 18:23 - Cloudflare acquires Astro
• 24:54 - Vertical tabs are coming to Chrome
• 29:37 - Apple is going to use Gemini for Siri
• 43:07 - What’s making us happy

News:

• Paige - Ryan Dahl declares humans writing code is over
• Jack - Cloudflare acquires Astro
• TJ - jQuery 4.0

Lightning News: 

• Chrome adds support for vertical tabs
• Apple and Google enter agreement to use Gemini for Apple Intelligence

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Onyx Storm book
• Jack - Learning to play Born to Run on guitar
• TJ - Only Murders in the Building TV series and Dungeon Crawler Carl book series

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