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GitHub Introduces Copilot Extensions

by emadabdulrahim on 5/21/24, 3:55 PM with 8 comments

• by cmpalmer52 on 5/21/24, 7:53 PM

  They need one for .NET MAUI. Copilot does a poor job helping with our port from Xamarin. “Maui is in pre-release at the time of training, so check the official documentation.” I’ve seen that several times on CoPilot and the JetBrains Rider AI.

• by rohansood15 on 5/22/24, 2:57 AM

  The sentry demo makes me wonder if this chat-based, IDE interface would be the preferred go-to for Devs for multi-tool, multi-step workflows? Or would they prefer to automate the flow as a background, asynchronous task?

• by bnchrch on 5/21/24, 6:17 PM

  This type of vertical integration must have Amazon a little worried.

  For example, if Microsoft took a chapter from Apples (anticompetitive) playbook with Spotify, They could always make Azure Extensions N features ahead of equivalent AWS Extensions.

  The productivity gains vscode devs would have by using Azure would always be more than AWS, and the cycle of user lock in would march forward.