If Copilot improves programming significantly-enough it might be a huge blow to makers of other IDE’s and text editors unless they provide an API for others to use. I don’t expect re-implementing Copilot-esque prediction is in the wheelhouse of places like Jetbrains or any of the open source editors.
According to the FAQ they’re focusing on VS Code which comes from the same parent company as Github (Microsoft).
I’ve been using GitHub’s official Copilot plugin for PyCharm for a couple of weeks. Nice to see that they reached outside of their corporate parent to make this.
The plugin is a bit buggy, but very usable. Copilot is a good assistant.
If Copilot improves programming significantly-enough it might be a huge blow to makers of other IDE’s and text editors unless they provide an API for others to use. I don’t expect re-implementing Copilot-esque prediction is in the wheelhouse of places like Jetbrains or any of the open source editors.
According to the FAQ they’re focusing on VS Code which comes from the same parent company as Github (Microsoft).
I’ve been using GitHub’s official Copilot plugin for PyCharm for a couple of weeks. Nice to see that they reached outside of their corporate parent to make this.
The plugin is a bit buggy, but very usable. Copilot is a good assistant.