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Pharo 14 released, a pure object-oriented programming language and environment focused on modernized dev tools, rebuilt refactoring/command infrastructure, and VM updates including RISC-V JIT support and GC improvements. This marks the first release under a new fall schedule.

Devin's virtual machine provides a development environment accessible via SSH, allowing users to treat it like a server across macOS, Linux, and Windows, with access to Devin's capabilities.

Devin introduces new CLI and SSH access methods for its cloud sessions, allowing users to create, manage, and resume sessions directly from the terminal and hand off work to local devices.

A tool that shares the host's Bluetooth adapter with a Proxmox VM over the network, bypassing hardware passthrough limitations for Intel chips and gaming distributions.

Recommending three coding agent companion tools trending on HN: Clawk (one-time Linux VM for agent), Mindwalk (replay sessions on 3D codebase map), Juggler (open-source GUI coding agent).

This article introduces Onyx, a VM for programmable agent orchestration, turning agent orchestration into software engineering by providing a runtime with clear semantics and execution model. It discusses the design decisions and limitations of current agent systems, and presents the PROGRAMS specification.

Explains the use of GCC's computed goto extension to improve the performance of bytecode VM dispatch tables compared to traditional switch statements, with a simple example.

A roundup of tools for running macOS and Linux virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs, including Viable, Vimy, and Liviable, with updates and features for lightweight virtualization.

The author explains switching to a Markdown-based test suite for EndBASIC's compiler and VM, motivated by making the tests serve as canonical documentation for LLMs to learn the language's idiosyncrasies.