Everything You Need To Know About GitHub Copilot

Discover this AI pair programmer

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When talking about coding and programming, there is a common term called autocomplete. We usually use some smart extensions in our code editor and IDEs to enjoy this autocomplete feature, and it’s pretty useful.

But what is GitHub Copilot? Is it the same as using autocompleting code suggestions? No, it is more than that.

GitHub Copilot suggests whole lines of code or entire functions. All you need is to type your requirements in the code editor, and it will suggest the code for that.

Sounds cool, right?

In this article, we will learn all about the GitHub Copilot program and how it works to provide code suggestions. Let’s get started!

What Is GitHub Copilot?

Recently announced by GitHub, Copilot is an AI pair programmer tool developed to help programmers write code faster and with less effort.

GitHub Copilot is based on Codex, an AI system created by OpenAI and trained on public source code that is mainly available on GitHub itself.

According to GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Copilot works better with a broad set of languages and frameworks such as Python, Ruby, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Go. But…