After making access to private repositories free for everyone and slashing prices of paid plans last month, GitHub Inc, has announced a bunch new features to accelerate application development, enhance security of applications and enable seamless discussion within the community.
One of the pain points faced by all developers on GitHub has been the time spent on configuring and setting up an environment.
With the new cloud based developer environment called Codepaces, many of the dependencies, tools, extensions, and dotfiles can now be loaded automatically within a few seconds.
This will speed up the application development process by removing barriers so developer can focus on the program. “We are really excited about Codespaces.