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Re:GitHub Copilot by fzaninotto on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:22PM (#27678088)
I have used IDEs with good knowledge of the types and libraries I'm using (e.g. VSCode with TypeScript). They offer good suggestions once you start typing a function name.

But nothing gets close to Copilot. It "understands" what you're trying to do, and writes the code for you. It makes type-based autocompletions useless.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by grandchild on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:29PM (#27678195)
tabnine works quite similarly to copilot. it's not a thing that "knows about types and libraries", it's a similar predictive machine learning method as copilot seems to use.
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