Microsoft GitHub AI programming tool Copilot has been officially launched today after nearly a year of testing, priced at $10 per month) or $100 per year, free for student users and maintainers of popular open-source projects.
According to the official introduction, Copilot can help developers automatically provide suggestions when writing code in development environments such as Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Neovim and JetBrains IDE.
Currently, GitHub Copilot supports programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Ruby, and Go. The code can be automatically written according to the context, including docstrings, comments, function names, and codes. As long as the user gives a prompt, the complete function can be written.
Over the past 12 months, more than 1.2 million developers signed up to use the GitHub Copilot preview, Microsoft GitHub said. Of the files enabled, GitHub said that nearly 40% of the code was written by Copilot.
Copilot is available to all developers starting today, and supports a 60-day free trial. That is to say, if current users do not subscribe, they will no longer be able to use Copilot on August 22.
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