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GitHub Copilot

8.6 /10
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GitHub Copilot
8.6 /10

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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GitHub Copilot Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

+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?

0% Negative
2% Neutral
98% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Efficient Service
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Effective Service

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

GitHub Copilot Reviews

Caled Daniel P.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Custom code suggestions.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?

It stands out because it can generate everything from functions to unit tests, which saves time and improves developer productivity. Plus, its deep integration into Visual Studio Code

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

An impressive feature of GitHub Copilot is that it understands the context of the code and can offer relevant suggestions based on the programming language, libraries used, and design patterns.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Something negative is the variability of the Generated Code, it does not always produce perfect solutions. Sometimes the generated code can be inefficient.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I highly recommend it because it supports all the languages, libraries, and frameworks used in the public GitHub repositories.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Alenandro S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Helps in writing code.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?

As you write code, it delivers insights in real time, you can greatly speed up development and reduce error rates. Copilot is helpful for developers working on various technologies because it supports a large variety of programming languages.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Like GitHub, Copilot can understand comments and natural language descriptions to produce relevant code. This gives developers a more organic way to communicate their goals.

What do you dislike most about this product?

While there is a free trial available for GitHub Copilot, developers and teams may need to pay extra for a membership to GitHub Copilot Pro in order to use the service in the long run.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I suggest it because it uses much of the source code that is available on GitHub, you can continually learn from it and hone your skills to write valuable, high-quality code.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Yash P.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Engineering
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Powerful code generation tool

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates GitHub Copilot from other similar products?

Integration with GitHub: GitHub Copilot is tightly integrated with GitHub, the world's largest platform for hosting and collaborating on software projects.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Machine Learning Models: Copilot's code generation capabilities are powered by advanced machine learning models trained on a diverse range of codebases.

What do you dislike most about this product?

No, I think it's well good enough.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Explore and Experiment: Take the time to explore GitHub Copilot's capabilities thoroughly. Experiment with different programming languages, frameworks, and coding scenarios to understand how Copilot can assist you in your development workflow.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing