Jun 22, 2022 10:23:00

'GitHub Copilot' that automatically complements the 'continuation' of the source code will be available to all users

GitHub Copilot , a function that automatically complements the 'continuation' of source code written halfway by humans, created in collaboration with the artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI, will be available to all users from June 21, 2022. have become.

GitHub Copilot is generally available to all developers | The GitHub Blog
https://github.blog/2022-06-21-github-copilot-is-generally-available-to-all-developers/

GitHub Copilot helps you get better focus and build faster by instantly suggesting code—and is now available for developers everywhere. Https://t.co/R6ZqAEtLJF

— GitHub (@github) June 21, 2022

GitHub Copilot is an extension that can be used with Microsoft-developed source code editor ' Visual Studio Code ' and editors such as Neovim , JetBrains , and GitHub Codespaces . It can be used on the machine or in the cloud as long as Visual Studio Code works. The following is using GitHub Copilot, if you write the source code halfway ...

GitHub Copilot guesses the source code that follows and automatically inputs functions and return values.

This feature understands a wide range of frameworks and dozens of programming languages, and works particularly well with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go. Users are free to edit the code proposed by GitHub Copilot. GitHub Copilot also learns the edits you make and adapts to your coding style.

The GitHub Copilot was released in an invitation-only technical preview on June 29, 2021, and has undergone design improvements over the course of a year. Over the past year, more than 1.2 million developers have used the technical preview version, and there is also a figure that nearly 40% of the code is written by GitHub Copilot in files with GitHub Copilot enabled. thing.

Open to the public, GitHub Copilot is available as a free trial for the first 60 days. After that, you can use it with a monthly rate plan of $ 10 (about 1360 yen) or an annual fee of $ 100 (about 13,640 yen). In addition, accredited institutional students or faculty members can access GitHub Copilot from the free and rewarding GitHub Student Developer Pack .

In addition, it is scheduled to be provided to companies in the latter half of 2022.