> “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” - Thomas Watson
This statement probably didn't happen. The closest thing to it was 10 years after the quote is usually supposed to have happened and was about a single model of a single machine: https://geekhistory.com/content/urban-legend-i-think-there-w...
> GitHub seems to be more high-level. It figures out the syntax and what you actually want to write.
To me, looks like it's feeding your voice input to Copilot that then generates the code output just as before. So, the same strength and weaknesses of Copilot apply (and you can probably mimic it locally with a voice input method you control, just dictate comments for copilot)
I bet if we use our imaginations, we’ll think of a lot of places were using voice to code could come in handy.
Personally, I’ve been waiting for it for a few decades.
The creator of TCL has RSI and has been using voice since the late 1990’s
https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/wrist.php
Thought we were really close 10 years ago when Tavis Rudd developed a system:
https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI
GitHub seems to be more high-level. It figures out the syntax and what you actually want to write.
This would help if you barely knew the language time to learn Rust or Scala.