Best of The New Stack — August 2023

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   Good-Bye Kris Nóva

   Kris Nóva had co-founded The Nivenly Foundation, a member-controlled and democratically-governed open source foundation. She was an open source developer who contributed significantly to Linux, Kubernetes, distributed runtime environments, Falco, and the Go programming language. In a word, she was “impressive.

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   Bram Moolenaar, Author of the Open Source Vim Code Editor, Has Died

   Bram Moolenaar, Author of the Open Source Vim Code Editor, has died after a brief illness. Vim was based on Unix’s Vi, a screen-oriented text editor created by Bill Joy that proved to be immensely popular.

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   New Figma Plug-in Converts Design to Angular, React Native

   The New Stack WaveMaker is testing a Figma plug-in that would work with its low-code Web Studio tool to generate Angular or React Native mobile code. The result is a ‘pixel-perfect’ code rendition of the design that can then be customized by developers. The plan is to use artificial intelligence technologies in the future.

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   Create a Development Environment in Docker Desktop

   The Docker Desktop has a number of cool features aimed at making container development more efficient and easier. One such feature is called Dev Environments, which allows you to create a configurable development environment using a locally deployed, self-contained container. For those just getting started on this journey, there’s also a sample environment you can use.

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