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Colin Eberhardt on GitHub Copilot: "I've been lucky enough to be granted access to the preview of Copilot, GitHub's new 'AI pair programmer' that is causing quite a stir. This blog post shares my initial thoughts and experiences with this tool. In brief, I'm stunned by its capabilities. It has genuinely made me say 'wow' out loud a few times in the past few hours, not something you expect from your developer tooling."
Colin Eberhardt on the State of WebAssembly: "This blog post shares the results of the first State of WebAssembly Survey, with results from 250 respondents surveyed in June 2021. We find that Rust is the most frequently used and most desired WebAssembly language and many other interesting results."
Software consultancy Scott Logic has been awarded a new contract to act as implementation and development partner on the Scottish Government's digital identity programme. The digital identity programme is the second major piece of work for Scott Logic with the Scottish Government. After partnering during the prototype and alpha phases, Scott Logic began work in October 2020 on a new payment platform that will allow Scottish public sector departments to manage payments consistently.
Scott Logic has signed up to the Scottish Business Pledge – a demonstration of our commitment to promoting fairness, equality, opportunity and innovation in Scotland.
Scott Logic opened a new office in Leeds in March 2021. The new office will drive growth of new business in Yorkshire and integrate Scott Logic in the city’s digital ecosystem.
Altitude Foundation was two years old in March 2021. We look at how it has weathered the pandemic, the support it's provided to students and teachers, what's in store for 2021—and how you can get involved!
Scott Logic is delighted to be a shirt sponsor of this year’s Cykelnerven, a prestigious, annual cycle event that raises much-needed funds for research into and treatment of Multiple Sclerosis.
Benedict Quinn on Flutter: "Flutter is a cross-platform mobile UI framework which allows you to develop an app for Android and iOS with one codebase. But is it any good?"
Matt Stobbs on The Philosophy of Svelte: "Svelte is one of the most exciting parts of front-end development today. But what is it, exactly? In this post, we take a look at the philosophy behind Svelte and see how it affects everything Svelte does."
The success story of Perspective—a powerful data visualisation component developed and open-sourced by J.P. Morgan—has been published in a new case study by FINOS, the Fintech Open Source Foundation. The story of its development is an exemplar of how open-source culture fosters collaboration. In the case of Perspective, this took the form of collaboration between J.P. Morgan and Scott Logic, and the integration into Perspective of D3FC—a collection of components created and open-sourced by Scott Logic that make it easy to build interactive charts with D3.