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In theory, I agree with your point. However, I've worked with people who struggle to write in English without introducing random punctuation, and don't "see" (
by whydid 5y ago
In theory, I agree with your point.
However, I've worked with people who struggle to write in English without introducing random punctuation, and don't "see" (or care about) the text on the screen enough to go back and fix it.
I think Copilot will be a great benefit to the lazy programmer, who understands the semantics, but just can't be bothered to get the indentation or other syntax correct.
- MontyCarloHall 5y agoI 100% agree, but that’s exactly what code linters do, which have been around for decades. That said, a more sophisticated linter might be useful in catching non-idiomatic, but syntactically/stylistically valid code that would thus be flagged as “valid” by current linters’ simple automata.
- schwartzworld 5y agoNot sure what language you work in, but in JS we have tooling like prettier so we don't have worry about code formatting so much.