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What is GitHub Copilot?
GitHub Copilot suggests code completions as developers type and turns natural language prompts into coding suggestions based on the project's context and style conventions. GitHub Copilot keeps track of your work, suggests descriptions, and helps reviewers reason about your changes. Use GitHub Copilot to code faster, drive impact, and focus on doing what matters most: building great software.
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Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
86 Likeliness to Recommend
95 Plan to Renew
81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+93 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love GitHub Copilot?
Pros
- Respectful
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Code Completion
IDE Integration
Natural Language Generation
Commenting
Summarization & Explanation
Bug Detection
Multi-Language Support
Unit Tests
Refactoring
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Business Value Created
Ease of Data Integration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Breadth of Features
Quality of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of IT Administration
Availability and Quality of Training
Vendor Support
Ease of Customization
GitHub Copilot Reviews
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Sushil F.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Jan 2025
Powerful Code Generation, User Friendly
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?
Strong Integration with GitHub, Seamless IDE Integration, Focus on Code Generation
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
dramatically accelerate the coding process
What do you dislike most about this product?
inaccurate or inefficient code
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Start with a Free Trial, Focus on Learning, Consider Ethical and Legal Implications
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Sarah S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2025
AI That Writes (and Thinks) with You.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?
GitHub Copilot feels like having a senior engineer sitting next to you, quietly suggesting lines of code before you even ask. As a systems engineer in finance, where precision and security are paramount, this AI-powered coding assistant has become an indispensable tool for our team. It doesn’t just write code; it enhances how we think about problem-solving.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
What really sets it apart is its ability to anticipate what you need based on context. For example, when working on compliance scripts for regulatory reporting, it autocompletes complex SQL queries or Python scripts with remarkable accuracy. This isn’t a simple “autocomplete” tool—it feels more like an assistant that learns and grows with your style of coding.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Copilot occasionally suggests solutions that are outdated or overly simplified for complex problems.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I’d recommend GitHub Copilot to any developer, but especially those working in fast-paced, high-stakes environments like finance. It’s a productivity enhancer, a learning tool, and a coding companion rolled into one.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Rakesh T.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2024
Improved productivity
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?
I have used chatGPT and github copilot but github copilot integration with intellij is awesome.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is very easily integrated with Intellij which make developer life so easy
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing on top of my head
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Every IT organization should consider it as it increase the productivity a lot
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Fair
- Acts with Integrity
- Generous Negotitation