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Copilot also helps a lot with verbose, RSI-inducing languages like C++. On days where my hands are cold or my hands are just not feeling as physically limber as
by dgunay 4y ago
Copilot also helps a lot with verbose, RSI-inducing languages like C++. On days where my hands are cold or my hands are just not feeling as physically limber as usual, it's a big relief when it autocompletes a long series of symbols for me.
I know regular old LSP/Intellisense helps here but you are still often constrained to only autocompleting one token at a time, and have to type it at least partially in most cases.
- hoosieree 4y agoI wonder if this will guide language design toward more verbose RSI-inducing syntax over time, sort of like how faster CPUs make software bloat more tolerable. For example, explicitly declared type information helps the model with predictions, so a language with more of this kind of syntax will be a better fit for the model. Gradually, will we see languages that are only meant to be used within the context of an AI assisted IDE?
- wing-_-nuts 4y ago>Gradually, will we see languages that are only meant to be used within the context of an AI assisted IDE? Some languages basically require an ide to be productive. I spent the first 3 years of college using vim to code java, until a kindly professor pulled me aside and told me to get with the 21st century, lol. After I got used to it I couldn't believe I didn't switch sooner. Some old arcane 'languages' are already things I wouldn't touch without gpt. When is the last time you had to write awk? By god I will never manually write a line of awk.
- trentnelson 4y agoYou can pry vim from my cold dead hands, unless I have to write C# or Java, and then, yeah, IDE all the way.