Sameer

Mumbai is experiencing intense heat as temperatures touched 40°C, the first time the city has reached this mark in March since 2021. The mercury at the Santacruz observatory was recorded around 7.6°C above normal, triggering severe heatwave conditions. The sudden spike has been linked to dry easterly winds and delayed sea breeze, which usually cool the coastal city. Weather experts warn that hot and humid conditions may continue, urging residents to stay hydrated and avoid long exposure to the afternoon sun. By🖋️: Eeshanpriya MS

We are behind Alpine???

I don't think the IDE is dead, just evolving. The original "integrated dev environments" emerged to unify a set of dev tools (editor, compiler, debugger, etc) that were previously separate. Right now, a lot of the flagship tools that a traditional IDE offers are becoming less important thanks to AI — even the editor itself! So there's a natural disconnective effect as many new kinds of tools are popping up and the industry tries to figure out which ones are here to stay. The end state will not be a reversion to the old world where you go to a different place for each tool. There will still be a need for a single opinionated home base that unifies the new generation of tools. And what better word for that than an IDE? (Of course, there's a lot of marketing reason to rebrand, so it's possible that push will win.) This would not be the first time the IDE has evolved to meet a changing software industry. Actually, it's funny that VSCode is at the center of the "is the IDE dead?" debate. I worked at Microsoft in 2018, two years after VSCode 1.0 was released, and it was starting to gain a lot of popularity. At that time, traditionalists would maintain that it was NOT an IDE, just an extensible editor. It was still a backburner project for Microsoft, and Visual Studio was the "real" IDE and main focus. Did we debate whether the IDE was dead then? I don't remember.

Interviewed a backend developer. Guy was at 21 LPA. We offered 28 LPA, roughly a 33 percent hike. He agreed and confirmed joining. Yesterday he emailed saying he got a 32 LPA offer elsewhere and now wants 36 LPA from us. Nonsense. Why agree in the first place. If you are still shopping offers just say it upfront. We stopped interviewing other candidates and waited through the notice period for the joining date. Now two days before joining, he came back with a new price tag.