GitHub Copilot is starting to produce D code that can almost pass code review

[max haughton]

On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 at 16:13:08 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 at 12:46:17 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 at 07:23:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Thank you for your extensive and thorough reply.
>>>
>>> You're right, I was thinking of integrating it with 
>>> MicroEmacs. I'd like it to be as simple as:
>>>
>>>     hinttext = copilot(sourcetext);
>>>
>>> which would make it great fun to play around with. Alas, I 
>>> have little hope it would be that simple :-) since most 
>>> programmers can't bear to make things simple.
>>
>> It works the other way, too. Many engineers are obsessed with 
>> simplicity. They go to great lengths to come up with the 
>> simplest solution where a complex one would suffice.))
>
> Making things simple is the hard part.

Making things is the hard part, I'd say.