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0 pointssimonw1y ago0 comments

What programming languages do you mostly work in?

I've been wondering if the benefits of AI-autocomplete are more material to people who work in languages like Python and JavaScript that are harder to provide IDE-based autocomplete for.

If you're a Java or TypeScript developer maybe the impact is reduced because you already have great autocomplete by default.

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cjonas1y ago

I think typescript benefits even more than JavaScript because the type signatures add so much context. After defining the types and signatures copilot will often complete the body within a few changes of perfect

zackproser1y ago

Yeah +1, the current top LLMs do pretty well with TypeScript

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