What does HackerNews think of copilot.el?
An unofficial Copilot plugin for Emacs.
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Emacs Lisp
This is bad because it means Microsoft may try to make copilot worse to boost profit.
Like I can see them charge per completion, and charge too much so that it costs $100+/month to run for an average developer. Or crack down on unofficial "copilots" like https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el (although I really doubt more than 1% of completions go to these since they are niche tools; most people are using the official Copilot for VSCode)
It looks like there's a lot of competition though. I'll say right now, if Copilot gets worse and someone has a half-decent open-source alternative, I'll pay a substantial amount (possibly $50+/mo, which is a lot for a grad student), because AI code-completion is that useful
Devs could use the unofficial plugin for Emacs (https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el) as a guideline to add support
You can use https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el to get Copilot completions in Emacs.
Video explainer: https://youtu.be/dZMGH_3UdSE
Realistically, there’s not much emacs can’t do, including integrating with copilot[1]. I think it’s niche isn’t system administration, but people who have the time, energy, and interest to really invest in their tools. Its configurability is second to none, and it’s not going anywhere. Emacs will still be around long after vscode is forgotten, and it’s nice to know that the time I spend learning my editor won’t go to waste when some big corp decides to up and leave, or the programming zeitgeist moves on to the shiny new thing.