Re:GitHub Copilot
by reader_mode on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @06:11PM
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>But in terms of conveying context there's always a tradeoff of explicit vs implicit
Exactly - if a tool let's you write it explicitly too easily you're making that the default, and it ignores the readability/maintainability side of the tradeoff.
Maybe it gets good enough to recognise when things can be factored out for better readability as well. But in my experience code generators rarely result in maintainable code.
The rest of your post doesn't really have to do with mine. Yeah, you can cut down on boilerplate with changes to languages... duh. But in terms of conveying context there's always a tradeoff of explicit vs implicit, and one of those costs is taking the time to actually turn your mental model into a written implementation - this eases that burden.
As I said, it's a fancy autocomplete.