From the course: GitHub Copilot for Software Developers by Microsoft Press

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Learn about supported languages and environments

Learn about supported languages and environments - Github Copilot Tutorial

From the course: GitHub Copilot for Software Developers by Microsoft Press

Learn about supported languages and environments

- All right, in the last video, we introduced GitHub Copilot as an AI powered coding assistant that works inside your IDE, powered by OpenAI's codex model. So what we're going to do next is we're going to talk about where Copilot works and what languages it can help you with. So GitHub Copilot supports a very wide range of programming languages. Most developers obviously first experience it with Python or JavaScript just because those are, you know, obviously two of the most common programming languages that Copilot was trained on. And because of that, also just as a side note, that is where it performs especially well. But you know, Copilot can work with, it's very highly capable, I'll say, with a very wide range of languages, including things like TypeScript, Go, Ruby, C Sharp, Java, PHP. It can also work with HTML and CSS, as well as things like SQL, right? So it covers a very wide range, not just of like specific programming languages, but also different programming paradigms…

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