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Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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lukevp wrote: post #10
adamsmith wrote: post #3

Adam from Kite here. The team and I are thrilled to launch our new deep learning engine for JavaScript completions. After years of work building our Python product — now to over 250,000 monthly active users — we decided we were ready to expand a new language. JavaScript was a clear choice given how well it pairs with Python, and it was the our most-requested language. We took what we learned from building our Python…

Adam, Intelligent autocomplete is great. Big fan of it. However, Microsoft has already built this out in VS and VS Code as IntelliCode, and it supports Python, Typescript, JS, and Java. VS Code is the most used JS editor by far and has first party support for this that comes out of the box. What is the reason for Kite for the VS Code users out there?

The link has examples of how this is different than VS Code.

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by stevenmays »

lukevp wrote: post #10
adamsmith wrote: post #3

Adam from Kite here. The team and I are thrilled to launch our new deep learning engine for JavaScript completions. After years of work building our Python product — now to over 250,000 monthly active users — we decided we were ready to expand a new language. JavaScript was a clear choice given how well it pairs with Python, and it was the our most-requested language. We took what we learned from building our Python…

Adam, Intelligent autocomplete is great. Big fan of it. However, Microsoft has already built this out in VS and VS Code as IntelliCode, and it supports Python, Typescript, JS, and Java. VS Code is the most used JS editor by far and has first party support for this that comes out of the box. What is the reason for Kite for the VS Code users out there?

It says it right in the blog post. VSCode only does fuzzy matching for javascript. This is an "intelligent" autocomplete, so the suggestions should be better.

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by rhlsthrm »

tobr wrote: post #13

Any reason to use this over TabNine[1]? I’ve been using that for months, and only have good things to say about it. It’s like it’s reading your mind. Strong recommendation. 1: https://www.tabnine.com

I just downloaded this yesterday and it’s already been insanely good. Really stoked to see more players and improvement in this space.

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by will_raw »

stevenmays wrote: post #14
lukevp wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adam, Intelligent autocomplete is great. Big fan of it. However, Microsoft has already built this out in VS and VS Code as IntelliCode, and it supports Python, Typescript, JS, and Java. VS Code is the most used JS editor by far and has first party support for this that comes out of the box. What is the reason for Kite for the VS Code users out there?

It says it right in the blog post. VSCode only does fuzzy matching for javascript. This is an "intelligent" autocomplete, so the suggestions should be better.

No, IntelliCode is also powered with AI and does not do fuzzy matching. Fuzzy matching happens if you disable intellisense. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by tobr »

enitihas wrote: post #8

How is this better than any IDE anyways? The examples look trivial and don’t seem even better than ultisnips for vim, forget IntelliJ. Are there better examples anywhere?

I can only speak about TabNine which appears to be very similar. It doesn’t just complete on APIs, it actually understands the code you’re writing. It will suggest variable names based on patterns, it will suggest what you initialize your variables to based on what they’re called. It will suggest comments based on the context. Sometimes you can just write the name of a function, and then tab through the suggestions line by line and it will write the whole procedure for you. It’s witchcraft.

Re: AI-Powered JavaScript Completions

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Post by will_raw »

tobr wrote: post #13

Any reason to use this over TabNine[1]? I’ve been using that for months, and only have good things to say about it. It’s like it’s reading your mind. Strong recommendation. 1: https://www.tabnine.com

Off-topic maybe, but do you feel the any kind of lag with TabNine. I've dropped using it after a month as its slowed down my editor.
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