I think GitHub Copilot (and LLMs for coding more generally) are best seen as a complement to traditional IDE completion.
Textual word completion is useful even when you have type-aware method completion. Copilot feels like a more powerful case of word completion.
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The author of rust-analyzer discussing how language features help or hinder fast IDEs.
If you allow `from m import *` you can't analyse files in isolation, and it's even harder in Rust.
I've released difftastic 0.68! A smaller update, but still worth upgrading:
* Improved Bash, C, Go, Lua, Nix, Perl, Python, Rust, Scala, Swift and YAML parsing.
* Minor display and git compatibility fixes.
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I'm considering using WebP more: for example, my websites would load faster and browsers have supported it since 2020: https://caniuse.com/webp
That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
