Copilot eclipse plugin

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Dear Copilot team,

The Copilot is great computer aided programming tool.
So far I have tried it with VS Code. It is nice playground to evaluate Copilot performance.
However I use eclipse CDT for production firmware programming purposes.
Eclipse CDT is still miles ahead of VS code in many respects when it comes to development of embedded projects.

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The attempt has been made by @masecla22 recently to fill this gap: https://github.com/masecla22/eclipse-github-copilot-integration
Unfortunately the plugin has never reached the maturity to be useful.

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Unfortunately I ran out of time for this project, and I don't have enough knowledge at the moment. I might come back to this, however, the entire functionality is "technically" implemented. IntelliJ and Eclipse are quite similar, and I'm somewhat confident that for each IntelliJ method there is an Eclipse counter part. Which is why, technically, simply swapping all components out would result in a functional plugin.

As for how hard that is to do, I cannot say.

If Intellij and Eclipse are indeed so similar, then it should not be a huge effort to support eclipse as well.

[ievgenmukhin]

+1 for Eclipse plugin. It is is my preferred IDE.

[hamidrezaabroshan]

+1 for eclipse plugin

[LemaireAlexandre]

+1 for eclipse plugin

[pmahajanmaxbit]

+1 for eclipse plugin

[nelson777]

+1 for eclipse plugin

[MoThe3rd]

+1 for eclipse plugin. I would love to see a github copilot plugin for eclipse as well : ) Thank you very much.

[davidsoles]

+1 for Eclipse Java IDE plugin.

[chenranj]

+1 for Eclipse Java IDE plugin.

[vgcpge]

Try my unofficial Eclipse integration. Use Help/Install New Software dialog to install it from an update-site:

https://vgcpge.github.io/eclipse.copilot/

Features:

• content assist

(side panel and ghost text are not supported)
Please report bugs.

[kevin-hc]

Link does not work

[vgcpge]

Use Help/Install New Software dialog. Update sites can't be viewed by a web browser.

[jonahgraham]

@vgcpge - it may be worth adding a 404 handler, or static page like Eclipse's download server has. See https://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/latest/ for an example.

[vgcpge]

@jonahgraham this had been a second misreport, so I had to add a shim.

[thomasritter]

+1 for eclipse plugin

[SkourtsidisGiorgos]

+1 for Eclipse Java IDE plugin.

[mehranlatifi83]

+1 for eclipse plugin

[chusnaval]

+1 for eclipse plugin. Eclipse is mandatory in so many companies

[castanedadev]

+1 for this plugin

[EmergReanimator]

@davecheney Could you please explain why you closed the question without providing any explanation?

[HardikKothariTR]

+1 for eclipse plugin
As our whole product use eclipse IDE

[KDNeufeld]

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/51197#discussioncomment-8211736

[hkuhn42]

+1 for official eclipse plugin

[lonelion]

In case you're interested in other AI coding tools, we've been working on an open-source Eclipse-based IDE that integrates ChatGPT and Tabnine. You can check out the sample app here:

https://github.com/equodev/eclipse-ai-example

And this is the IDE repo:

https://github.com/equodev/equo-ide

[nobtak4035319]

+1 for official eclipse plugin

[mauriciocirelli]

+1

[fidley]

+100

[FanKeYuanDSA]

+1

[qechappell]

+1

[cgomezmib]

+1

[garciagonzalezdavid]

+1

[KaliswaranNachimuthu]

+1

[sm-a]

+1 for official eclipse plugin

[toddewilliams]

Genuitec has just released Copilot4Eclipse with Chat. It's a professional, free integration of GitHub Copilot for all Eclipse IDEs. Now the AI you love is available in all the IDEs you use.

Incredible video showing chat features: here
Release blog: here
Eclipse Marketplace Install: here
Support Forum: here

> +1 for official eclipse plugin

There are a lot of upvotes and +1's here! Want to help make it happen?

We'd like to work with GitHub to make our plugin the "official" one and are quite flexible on how we could do that. I know a lot of GitHub employees monitor this discussion so if y'all could help with visibility or make an introduction to the right contact (@scottdensmore or other?) we'd really appreciate it. Obviously, it would be incredible for the Eclipse community while providing Copilot with full coverage for all the popular IDEs. Thanks in advance.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm a co-founder of Genuitec and Copilot4Eclipse is our product, so yeah, I think it's awesome. Additionally, Copilot4Eclipse currently generates revenue for GitHub, through Copilot subscriptions and usage, and nothing but losses for us, due to the development costs and lack of any revenue stream. This relationship is not indefinitely sustainable.

While I have your attention, I'll go "all in" on the marketing and note that we also created other free / freemium plug-ins to cover gaping holes in Eclipse that you'll probably enjoy:

Darkest Dark Theme with DevStyle: Because Eclipse needs a face lift with a perfect dark theme (and light themes and modern icons too).

Codetogether Live Because Eclipse needs a world-class way to collaborate remotely (like Live Share but without the mandatory account requirements). Oh, and it's the only one that works between all the IDEs your team uses or from a browser and can be fully hosted behind your firewall.

[jerfex]

Would it be possible to adapt a Copilot plugin to Netbeans?

[toddewilliams]

Yes, it's definitely possible as the API is public. But it requires someone who's motivated and possesses the required technical skills.

[zakharc]

Hi @toddewilliams, could you please share some insights on this? Is there any documentation on the public APIs, or is this based on reverse engineering of the existing plugins?

[toddewilliams]

There is a Copilot API Guide that's a great place to start.

EDIT: Ignore my comment here as it's unrelated. Didn't delete it just to provide transparency.

[zakharc]

Thank you for the reference, Todd! I’m still a bit confused. This thread is about making GitHub Copilot available in Eclipse. Your reference is for the APIs at https://www.copilot.com/, which is a third-party company not related to GitHub Copilot, as they explicitly stated:

We're a client portal SaaS company and not affiliated with the following:
Microsoft (ewww)
GitHub
Copilot AI
Copilot Money
Copilot Fitness (My Copilot)
Education Copilot
Copilot GPS

Could you clarify how using public APIs from https://www.copilot.com/ relates to GitHub Copilot?

[toddewilliams]

Wow, thanks for pointing this out. I had just done a quick search and it seemed on point.

I'm not one of the active developers working on this here. I inquired internally and was simply told that "our policy is that we aren't going to discuss our methods or techniques".

Sorry about that.