At its Universe conference, GitHub today announced a number of major new products, including the Spark project for writing applications entirely with

GitHub’s Copilot comes to Apple’s Xcode

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2024-11-01 23:00:13

At its Universe conference, GitHub today announced a number of major new products, including the Spark project for writing applications entirely with AI, as well as multi-model support for its Copilot service. But Copilot itself is also getting quite a few updates.

With this release, Microsoft-owned GitHub is bringing Copilot to Apple’s Xcode environment for the first time. Now in public preview, this will allow developers who build apps in Apple’s IDE with the assistance of Copilot. For now, the focus here is on code completion, but Copilot Chat and its other features will likely make their way into Xcode over time.

Copilot already supports Apple’s preferred languages Swift and Objective-C, so there’s no surprise there. Copilot, like on other platforms, will offer multi-line suggestions when it can and users will be able to block suggestions that match public code.

“This is a major milestone in our ongoing mission to make Copilot an essential tool for developers across a wide variety of platforms,” GitHub wrote in today’s announcement. “Now, Apple developers can enjoy the same intelligent coding assistance, seamlessly integrated into their favorite IDE.”

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