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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by jappgar on Thursday October 31, 2024 @07:17AM (#42005641)
I can guarantee you there is more publicly accessible javascript in the world than C++.

Copilot will autocomplete entire functions as well, sometimes without comments or even after just typing "f". It uses your previous edits as context and can assume what you're implementing pretty well.

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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by infecto on Thursday October 31, 2024 @08:01AM (#42005958)
I can guarantee you that the author was referencing code withing Google. That is, their tooling is trained off internal code bases. I am imagining c++ dwarfs javascript.
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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by lupire on Thursday October 31, 2024 @07:48AM (#42005848)
Google does not write much publicly available JavaScript. They wrote their own special flavor. (Same for any hugel legacy operation)
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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by bilekas on Thursday October 31, 2024 @08:08AM (#42006010)
Can we get some more info on what you're reffering to ?
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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by jkaptur on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:54AM (#42007547)
They're probably talking about Closure Compiler type annotations [0], which never really took off outside Google, but (imo) were pretty great in the days before TypeScript. (Disclosure: Googler)

0. https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/Annotating-J...

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