Ryan Bates (Dec 31 2023 at 13:01): Ryan Bates (Dec 31 2023 at 13:01):I have been really impressed with GitHub Copilot for Roc while using it for AoC this month. It more often than not makes helpful suggestions. It is especially useful for generating type signatures. Sometimes it gets the syntax or standard lib names wrong, but those are easy enough to correct.
My only other experience with Copilot is in large Ruby on Rails applications which I have found it less helpful. This surprised me because Roc is such a new language and has less training data. Perhaps it’s because Roc is a typed language, or that Copilot is really good at AoC puzzles?
What’s your experience with Copilot for Roc compared to other languages?
Chris Wesseling (Dec 31 2023 at 18:28):Or that the quality of ML code on the web is better than the average Ruby code. Or that the structure of ML code is less ambiguous than Ruby code.
Hannes (Jan 01 2024 at 12:11):it could also be partly because the kind of problems that copilot is solving for Roc and advent of code are different to the kinds of problems you're solving with ruby and rails. :thinking:
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