Can a newbie really vibe code an app? I tried Cursor and Replit to find out

I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with Copilot Vision: VS Code's Head Start and How the IDE Is Catching Up

AI space! GitHub Copilot's vision and image-based features arrived first in VS Code in February 2025 and have since become ...
Visual Studio Magazine

C# Grabs Language of the Year, TIOBE Predicts TypeScript Rise

C# was named TIOBE’s Programming Language of the Year, while the index also pointed to a potential rise for TypeScript.
GitHub

pydecipher: unfreeze and deobfuscate your frozen python code

pydecipher is a Python package to unpack/unfreeze and analyze frozen Python artifacts with the ultimate goal of producing the artifact's underlying, high-level, Python source code. pydecipher can be ...
IEEE

A Tutorial on Quantitative Trajectory Evaluation for Visual(-Inertial) Odometry

Abstract: In this tutorial, we provide principled methods to quantitatively evaluate the quality of an estimated trajectory from visual(-inertial) odometry (VO/VIO), which is the foundation of ...
GitHub

R Extension for Visual Studio Code

This VS Code extension provides support for the R programming language, including features such as R language service based on code analysis, interacting with R terminals, viewing data, plots, ...