Github Satellite 2020 Recap

Earlier in May Github held a regular conference — Satellite. It was in a virtual format for the first time and with lightning talks delivered by the community. We have prepared a short recap with highlights of new products and features. Let’s check it out!

Codespaces

It’s a new cloud-hosted product based on Visual Studio code editor. The main goal is to simplify and speed up contributing. In a few clicks you can configure the required environment right in your browser. Github team says nothing about pricing, but the limited public beta is already available for testing. There is a similar alternative named Codesandbox, but competitiveness is good in any directions.

Thanks to Swift and its support for Language Server Protocol, we’ll soon be able to edit Swift code directly from the browser (even on iPads? 🤔).

Discussions

Currently we can discuss project related topics in issues and pull requests. There are examples of blogs based on Github issues. With Discussions the community can create knowledge bases and collaborative documentation in a new convenient way. You can start exploring it right now with discussions for Satellite and check feedback for the talks.

Security

There are two new features related to security. Code scanning automatically scans repos on push actions to find vulnerabilities in your projects.

Have you pushed private secrets or tokens by mistake? Secret scanning now works for private repos as well, it finds secret tokens issued by popular service providers and warns you.

Others

If you want more info, dive deeper into DevOps, collaboration and more, check out the latest playlists on Github Youtube channel. But if you feel tired of tech talks, check out an awesome play track with live coding, AI rap battles and live-coded DJ set with Sonic Pi.