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b'Brian and Ed cover the latest news in the development community including: Bots-bots-bots, .NET Core RC2, Project.json, and NativeScript.\\n\\nhttp://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/developer-digest-4/\\n\\nE: Hello and welcome to Eat Sleep Code, the official Telerik podcast. I\\u2019m your host, Ed Charbeneau, and with me today is my co-host, Brian Rinaldi. Brian, how\\u2019s it going?\\n\\nB: Hello, it\\u2019s going great.\\n\\nE: And today\\u2019s another Developer Digest episode, and we have some great articles that we collected from the web to share with you guys, and we post those on our Telerik Developer Network, and we\\u2019re gonna give you our commentary on those and then you\\u2019re welcome to go find those on our website, and read them or sign up for the newsletter. So, let\\u2019s kick things off with our first article by the always amazing Jen Looper. And she\\u2019s got an article called bots! bots! bots! And it\\u2019s pretty much about bots. So, like Microsoft, and Google, and Facebook, at their big keynotes this year, have all come out with their own bot frameworks. And it seems like 2016 is the year of the bot, right?\\n\\nB: Absolutely, in fact, I talked to somebody\\u2026 This was a PhoneGap Day earlier in the year. They were telling me before things had really taken off, they were like, \\u201cBots are gonna be the thing.\\u201d I guess they were right. So, it just really seems like it\\u2019s taken off. Every company is releasing a bot platform, people are writing bots left and right. I think it\\u2019s really cool. I think the reason probably is it\\u2019s easy to interact with. It\\u2019s just natural to interact with a bot if it\\u2019s done well, right?\\n\\nE: Yeah. In my opinion, I think some of the relativeness of bots and why they\\u2019re kind of making a comeback, and I say making a comeback, \\u2019cause we\\u2019ve had bots in other chat platforms for years, but those things were always command driven, right? You always had to slash some command and then some parameters for that command and the bot may throw an emoji out or something. But now, we\\u2019ve got this machine learning from all the big software manufactures and it\\u2019s a lot easier to parse through natural language and figure out what people are talking about, what they\\u2019re discussing, and less reliance on the specific keywords to make a bot do something. You can kind of glean what the conversation\\u2019s about or what the question was, and the big companies like Microsoft, Google and Facebook, are making APIs to help facilitate that stuff.\\n\\nB: Yeah, totally. And on that note, all of this blends together with not just bots that you type to, but also ones you speak to. Things like Amazon Echo or Google have their Google\\u2026 I forgot what they called their one that they released at I/O, or announced there anyway [editor\\u2019s note: Google Home]. So, I actually have an article coming up about writing for the Echo. In that case, the commands are spoken. In the end, there\\u2019s really not a lot of difference because the commands are spoken but then translated into text that I then parse and respond to. And then I send back text and that text is just spoken. So, it\\u2019s effectively the same kind of thing as these bots, but I think you\\u2019ve noticed companies starting to add those voice assistants into just about every device that they have, and people like to use them. So, it\\u2019s one of those things that I\\u2019m always kind of skeptical of the next big thing, like wearables and VR and things like that. I\\u2019m a little skeptical that those are really gonna be quick to catch on. Wearables is obviously a market but it\\u2019s somewhat small. And VR still hasn\\u2019t proven that it\\u2019s necessarily useful to me. But this one, I think it\\u2019s so simple to interact with, and the ability to either just naturally type or naturally speak makes it just a no brainer.\\n\\nFind the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/developer-digest-4/'