Preview of Kite, the AI pair programmer

Re:Preview of Kite, the AI pair programmer by veli_joza on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:55AM (#13929413)

Now, this is an exciting development of tooling. This could bootstrap next generation of tools that would make huge increase in software complexity actually manageable.

I like that it shows you code examples (I use GitHub code search a lot). Another idea would be to automatically show you the code of function you are calling, so you can quickly verify your assumptions (sync/async, error handling, return values).

I don't do much Python nowadays, but I'm very excited about Kite.

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Re:Preview of Kite, the AI pair programmer by mpicard on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:39AM (#13938177)

I do a lot of Python and all I can say is wow, it's so handy. It's way better than any other hovering UI suggestion/completion plugins I've used. If it supports type hinting in Python then you could get arg types, return values, etc.

They plan on adding more languages I believe so keep an eye out for yours.

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