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At Build 2026 in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled Project Polaris to replace GPT-4 Turbo in GitHub Copilot, open-sourced the Windows Agent Framework, and previewed the Windows Agent Runtime and Azure Agent Mesh.

Flutter 3.44 and Dart 3.12 ship at Google I/O 2026 with agentic hot reload, Flutter GenUI on the A2UI protocol, Swift Package Manager as the iOS/macOS default, and Hybrid Composition++ for Android.

R hit #8 in the TIOBE Index — matching its all-time high — as Python and R emerge as the two survivors in a rapidly consolidating statistical language market, while Go fell to #16 and Zig crept toward the top 30.