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I have just tried GitHub Copilot with Clojure and here is what I think about it. Editor Integration I decided to give Copilot a try because a few friends of mine spoke really high about it. When I wanted to integrate it into my Emacs though, I saw that there’s no official release for it. Luckily, some great people built this unofficial plugin, and I was ready to use Copilot in my Emacs within minutes. There was just this one insistent warning about Copilot not being able to infer indentation offset for Clojure mode that kept popping up, which I still do not know how to fix, but as it didn’t really effect my usage and I was just trying Copilot out, for the trial period I added a line to my config to avoid seeing that warning as a temporary solution. ...

You probably know that the concept of “writing” was invented by some Mesopotamian people called Sumerian (Some Mesoamerican folks also independently discovered it, though much later than Sumerians did). Have you ever thought, though, how they invented it? Because when you think about it, it’s actually quite a hard task. They had to learn how to decompose a continuous sound into a speech unit, or how to even recognize that sound in all the places it’s used in the language, find symbols to represent those and whatnot. Somehow, they managed to do it. Let’s dive into the details. ...