A Year in Review
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Welcome to the final newsletter of 2024!
We want to dedicate this edition to you. Thank you for being with us throughout 2024. We truly appreciate you and the 28,314 other followers who have joined us. We look forward to reconnecting in 2025.
Here are the key highlights from our newsletters this year.
Let’s dive in one last time!
.NET 9
.NET 9 introduces variety of enhancements for developers, including improved performance through optimised Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation and garbage collection, streamlined development workflows with the updated SDK, and built-in AI integrations via the Microsoft.Extensions.AI package. These advancements enable developers to build high-performance, cross-platform applications more efficiently.
GPT-4o Mini is a compact version of OpenAI's GPT-4, offering efficient performance with lower computational requirements. It delivers high-quality outputs while reducing costs, making advanced AI more accessible to developers and businesses.
This allows for real-time applications, faster processing, and integration into low-power devices, enabling innovation across a wider range of projects and enhancing affordability for smaller-scale AI solutions.
If you have not yet explored it, we invite you to take a look here.
React 19 came with significant enhancements, including Server Components for improved server-side rendering, Server Actions enabling client components to execute asynchronous server functions, and new hooks like useActionState to streamline state management.
These features enhance performance, simplify development workflows, and enable more efficient data handling, allowing developers to build faster, more interactive web applications with greater ease.
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Million-qubit Quantum Computers
Million-qubit quantum computers represent a great leap in computational power, enabling the efficient resolution of complex problems beyond the capabilities of classical systems.
This advancement facilitates breakthroughs in areas such as drug discovery, materials science, and optimisation challenges, thereby accelerating innovation and offering solutions to previously intractable issues.