When GitHub Copilot launched and started autocompleting lines of code ' and, later, entire code snippets ' the question many people were asking was: How long until we can just describe an app in natural language and Copilot will build it for us' We've seen quite a few experiments in this arena in recent months, but now, GitHub itself is throwing its weight behind this idea with the announcement of GitHub Spark at the company's annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco. Spark, which is officially an experiment the company is launching out of its GitHub Next labs, allows you to quickly build a small web app using nothing but natural language. Experienced developers can still see and edit the code ' and underneath it all is a GitHub repository, GitHub Actions, and Microsoft's Azure CosmosDB as the default database for applications that need one ' but that's optional. Ideally, you'll be able to use a chat-like experience to create a prototype and then refine it in subsequent...
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