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Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by adamsmith on Thursday April 14, 2016 @10:47AM (#11497139)
Hi everyone, we couldn't be more excited to tell you about Kite and get your feedback!

We think connecting programming environments to a smart backend will improve programming in a lot of ways, and this is just the first step. We'd love to hear your thoughts on where we should go from here!

Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by jobvandervoort on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:13AM (#11497338)
This looks great! Loved the left-pad joke in there.

Could you elaborate on when it'll be available? Will you make it or parts open source?

Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by adamsmith on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:26AM (#11497444)
We will begin inviting folks today. We want to control the upramp for two reasons: first, with desktop software, every time you take a step up in user base order-of-magnitude (1 -> 10 -> 100 ...) you see new bugs from odd desktop configurations. For example, we've already had one user whose machine wouldn't resolve "localhost" when docker was running : )

Second, we have to also manage backend scaling. We have some pretty strong systems engineers, but maybe because they're experienced they know what they don't know!

But we want everyone to be using it ASAP also.

RE open source, today we open sourced our client plugins (http://github.com/kiteco/plugins), and published instructions for writing your own. If you use an editor that isn't supported, it's about a 2-3 day project to create a plugin for a new editor. : )

Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by bpicolo on Thursday April 14, 2016 @01:40PM (#11498821)
Someone I know can only ping localhost as root on his Mac. Still haven't figured that one out hah
Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by adamcanady on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:14AM (#11497342)
Also the hostname of "TayandYou".
Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by ipince on Thursday April 14, 2016 @01:32PM (#11498728)
And the Batman v Superman. lol
Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by jdiez17 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:48AM (#11497647)
And the icons on the desktop.
Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by saltycraig on Thursday April 14, 2016 @01:16PM (#11498596)
And the rm -rf / joke ;)
Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by jdiez17 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:54AM (#11497721)
I have a question that is not answered on your /privacy page. Do you anonymise the data you collect? I'm curious about terminal commands in particular, but I don't care so much if the usage information can be linked back to me.
Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by nkw on Thursday April 14, 2016 @01:39PM (#11498810)
I hate to say it but my first thought was "Hey it is Clippy[1] for developers"! But after reading on I think it is a really great idea and looks nice. I will certainly give it a try.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant

Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by tarp on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:35PM (#11498155)
One of the best demo videos I've seen
Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by Dangeranger on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:33AM (#11497502)
Are you open to new clients being written in addition to editor plug-ins to the existing client? For example would you be open to a client interface directly from Atom or the terminal instead of a side by side window experience?
Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by ceeK on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:05PM (#11497821)
Fantastic idea. Disappointed I can't use it now! I'll be waiting for use with Swift.
Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by alexflint on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:22PM (#11497992)
Thanks! FYI: if you sign up at kite.com then you'll get to enter the language you use, so we can get in touch when we get to swift.