Advertised as "Your AI Pair Programmer," GitHub Copilot indeed works very well, and I am impressed. The promise is that "you write the comments, and it writes the implementation code." I did not read this documentation but just started writing code. It worked like magic.
I got a value from a hash table. It offered to check that the value existed and was not empty. The suggestion is shown in the pale font.
I then hit the tab to accept. The suggestion was bolded.
I saved a few seconds. I also saved some brain CPU cycles. I had a comfortable feeling that the code was in good style. I wasted half an hour sharing my excitement with the world.
There is more! It writes my comments. And often, it gets is right. If not, then often enough, I can still accept and change a word or two.
Thumbs up, GitHub.
