GitHub Copilot update: support PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA and Neovim

On June 29, 2021, Microsoft and OpenAI jointly launched an AI programming tool GitHubCopilot.

GitHub Copilot pair programming is a common agile software development technology. It is based on the source code of GitHub and other websites, and can automatically write the following code for programmers according to the above tips.

However, it is precisely because Copilot uses public code bases for training that copyright issues arise one after another. Not only has it received a lot of controversy, it has also been criticized by the Free Software Foundation.

At the recent GitHubUniverse 2021 Developer Conference, GitHub announced that it had updated Copilot.

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• Expand the editor support, GitHub Copilot now supports Neovim and JetBrains IDE, especially focusing on the latest version of IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm;
• Added support for multi-line code completion in Java;

The version of IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm must be 2021.2 or above; the version of Neovim must be 0.6 or above, and Node.js v12 or above must be installed.

In addition, GitHub stated that ​"Copilot will support more languages ​​in the coming months"​.