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

[Max Samukha]

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.))