What is GitHub Copilot?
GitHub Copilot is a cutting-edge AI pair programmer that revolutionizes software development. Powered by advanced large language models, including a customized version of OpenAI's GPT, it empowers developers to write code faster and more efficiently by providing instant suggestions for individual lines, functions, and even entire solutions. Supported across a wide range of programming languages, GitHub Copilot adapts to the user's preferred development environment, seamlessly integrating with Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and the JetBrains suite of IDEs
Highlights
- Instant code suggestions: GitHub Copilot draws context from comments and existing code to provide real-time suggestions for individual lines and whole functions, boosting developer productivity
- Cross-language support: Leveraging its robust training on diverse codebases, GitHub Copilot provides comprehensive support for a wide range of programming languages, with more common languages benefiting from the most robust suggestions
- Secure and privacy-focused: GitHub Copilot for Business ensures user privacy by never retaining customer code from prompts or suggestions, and users can enable a mechanism to block suggestions that match public code.
Features
Extends your editor
More than autocomplete
Convert comments to code
Speaks all the languages you love